Tableau Strategies: Solving Real, Practical Problems with Data Analytics (Grayscale Indian Edition)

I expected color print but i received black and white

This is the second tableau kindle book I bought in the same day and wow. Not for tableau beginners (but we can address that). If one was looking to make Tableau their superpower and could only buy one resource - this is that resource. As the previous review stated, chapter 11 on pagination and chapter 5 on KPIs with time series analysis really stand out as top quality skills BI analysts should be able to provide and are delivered here deployment ready.The rest of the book covers all the areas an intermediate pro tableau analyst should know and scales it up to advanced, without the technical, pointless mathematics or book padding historical reasoning. Just immediately usable solutions thoroughly worked through to actual real world modelling needs - it’s the ‘best practice’ stuff you were sifting through all the resources on Google hoping to find.Another chapter of note is 7 - Geospatial modelling. Working in a property consultancy, the map visualisation techniques are invaluable to me and I consider this chapter alone to be worth 50% of the book price.Beginners to tableau will find this book confusing as a good deal of the scenarios are detailed and use many different tableau features and techniques which can be copied but should be understood before using them in your own solutions. One example of advanced techniques is chapter 11 pagination - fantastic modelling but involved. This is one chapter I will be spending a free night alone on to fully understand these techniques completely so that I can add them to subsequent models as my own standard and best practice features.Beginners could start with another book from O’Reilly and which is not just for beginners; it is the second book I bought. The book written by Lorna Brown, also released In 2021, is equally bang up to date on the software. I think, together, you would need no further paid resources.Over the past year, I have found a few authors and tableau practitioners I consider worth following; many authors appear to 'borrow' their ideas from others and represent them as their own. My recommendations, in no order, are Luke Stanke, Lorna Brown, Andy Kriebel, Flerlage Twins and Ryan Sleeper for anyone wanting to become super pro in all things Tableau - they are all masters.The O’Reilly books have served me very well in my professional employment and I recommend this tableau strategy book as a professional manual.KINDLE ISSUES------------------There is one problem that I do have and it is with the KINDLE app online, IOS and Android. The only way I can see this book in its entirety and in colour is by downloading and installing the Kindle desktop app. None of the alternative apps are capable of presenting the entire book or graphics. Each totally fails in a different way but all are impossible to view the book as it was intended. This is a very serious issue as the Kindle device will not display colour - a requirement to interpreting the graphics. I would have bought the hard copy of the book but both are almost equally priced and I will not pay double.I hope that this review helps someone make a decision. I write reviews on my own experiences as I use the reviews of others to guide my purchasing decisions, sidestepping marketing and sponsored reviews of which there are too many on Amazon.

I think the content of the book is excellent! As a visual engineer who is beyond beginner, but not yet at Zen Master level, this is exactly the kind of book I was looking for, and Ann and Luke did not disappoint! What is most disappointing is the printing of this book in black and white, which makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. With color being one of the primary components of visualization, and portions of the book being dedicated to this concept, why on earth would this book be printed in black and white? The "Look Inside" clearly shows the printed material in color, so this is either a misprinting of the book or a deceptive marketing tactic on Amazon.I was really looking forward to receiving this book, and the authors did not disappoint. I will most certainly add it to my Tableau library, but when it is printed in COLOR!

I was excited to get a publication that guided the reader through Tableau in a practical manner that really took advantage of the cool things the software can do. I've seen Ann Jackson's instruction in other media and she always does an outstanding job.Unfortunately, the print version of this book is not nearly as good as I hoped. The preview on Amazon clearly displays everything in color, but the book I received is in black and white. Many of the screen images are excruciatingly difficult to make sense of due to small, monochromatic printing. Additionally, the step-by-step instructions sometimes leave important steps out or have inaccuracies, which is even more disappointing and might make some exercises impossible for some users to figure out.There is value to be gained from this publication, so it's a shame that better quality control was not performed to check the accuracy of the instructions and the printing quality.

Excellent resource for Tableau Desktop users who create and maintain dashboards. Really helpful content regarding calculated fields. My only issue is, was this book meant to be in color? In the Look Inside preview, charts are in color, but with copy I received, it’s in B&W. Color would have been useful with the Tableau screenshots. Other than that, a nice Tableau resource to have.

This book assumes that you are very familiar with Tableau. It is not for beginners. It leaves out a lot of important steps for getting your visualizations to match those in the book. You can follow the steps exactly and your visualization will not match. I bought the book as a refresher to walk through scenarios and create visualizations from similar real world projects, or "use cases", as the book describes them. The use cases are ok, but the instructions are just frustrating. I found myself going to YouTube and Tableau.com help pages to help me figure out what I was missing in order to get my visualizations to match the one in the book. I'm giving it 2 stars because, if you are going to give instructions for constructing something or solving a problem, you should list all pertinent steps. I paid 33.53 and I'm seriously considering returning it. I'm very disappointed.