"Tableau Desktop Pocket Reference: Essential Features, Syntax and Data Visualizations" (Book): The main of Tableau

“Tableau Desktop Pocket Reference: Essential Features, Syntax, and Data Visualizations” by Ryan Sleeper takes us on a journey through the main of Tableau Desktop as a Visualization tool. 

It is a book to have a general overview of Tableau Desktop, not a book to deeply dive into it or understand how to be more visually creative in terms of design with this tool. 

I mean… If you choose Tableau because you think at its powerful look and feel, which in my opinion is the greatest strength of this tool and what really makes the difference, you will not find too much content related with this reading “Tableau Desktop Pocket Reference: Essential Features, Syntax and Data Visualizations”. 

However, it is a good starting point to be able to work with this data visualization tool and produce something in a very short time or, in case you have used it before, it enables you to make a quick review, especially because of its only 146 pages and of its clear structure divided into 14 chapters. The chapters are (https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/tableau-desktop-pocket/9781492093473/): 

Chapter 1 - Tableau’s Product Ecosystem; 

Chapter 2 - Shaping Data; 

Chapter 3 - Connecting to Data; 

Chapter 4 - Tableau Terminology; 

Chapter 5 - Dimension Versus Measure; 

Chapter 6 - Discrete Versus Continuous; 

Chapter 7 - How to make a Bar Chart; 

Chapter 8 - How to make a Line Graph; 

Chapter 9 - How to make a Scatter Plot; 

Chapter 10 - Filters; 

Chapter 11 - Calculated Fields; 

Chapter 12- Parameters; 

Chapter 13 - Sets; 

Chapter 14 - Dashboards and Distribution.