Chapter 3. Moving from Foundational to More Advanced Visualizations

You are now ready to set out on a journey of building advanced visualizations. Advanced does not necessarily mean difficult. Tableau makes it easy to create them. Advanced also does not necessarily mean complex. The goal is to communicate the data, not obscure it with needless complexity.

Instead, these visualizations are advanced in the sense that you will need to understand when they should be used, why they are useful, and how to leverage the capabilities of Tableau to create them. Additionally, many of the examples introduce some advanced techniques, such as calculations, to extend the usefulness of foundational visualizations. Many of these techniques will be developed more ...

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