Tableau Cookbook for Experienced Professionals: Over 60 advanced recipes for maximizing performance, interactivity, and platform potential
Author: Pablo Sáenz de Tejada (Author), Daria Kirilenko (Author)
Publisher finelybook 出版社: Packt Publishing
Publication Date 出版日期: 2025-04-25
Language 语言: English
Print Length 页数: 372 pages
ISBN-10: 1835469744
ISBN-13: 9781835469743
Book Description
Push beyond conventional Tableau by mastering advanced geospatial capabilities, unlocking API potential, and fortifying corporate data infrastructure with industry-leading best practices
Key Features
- Transform dashboards into data apps that drive instant business decisions
- Build robust data models that scale with your data
- Extend Tableau with developer tools to automate tasks and integrate with external systems
- Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook
Book Description
In today’s data-driven business world, advanced analytics set organizations apart. Basic visualizations no longer suffice for Tableau developers tackling complex data challenges. Written by Tableau experts who’ve trained Fortune 500 companies and led global analytics initiatives, this cookbook delivers battle-tested techniques with the perfect blend of technical depth and practical application.
You’ll master advanced techniques such as geospatial analysis, data modeling for optimized workflows, and enterprise-scale content management. This book shows you how to leverage Tableau cloud’s Data Management capabilities to centralize data sources and ensure data quality for consistent analytics. You’ll also explore advanced management features such as the Content Migration Tool in Tableau 2025.1 and beyond.
Bridging the gap between fundamentals and cutting-edge practices, this book extends Tableau’s capabilities with APIs, custom LOD expressions, virtual connections, data apps, and TabPy. You’ll gain the skills to solve complex business problems, create high-impact dashboards, and seamlessly integrate Tableau into your data strategy, all while adhering to security and governance best practices.
This isn’t just another Tableau cookbook—it’s your blueprint for mastering the platform and driving meaningful data-powered transformation.
What you will learn
- Build advanced, high-performing Tableau data models and tables
- Tackle data complexities with LOD expressions and table calculations
- Leverage zone visibility to build interactive and user-friendly dashboards
- Optimize workbook performance for improved user experience
- Analyze geospatial data with map layers, shapefiles, and spatial joins
- Develop a deeper understanding of Tableau’s REST API capabilities
- Use Tableau’s order of operations to troubleshoot calculations
- Adopt industry-standard best practices to secure corporate data assets
Who this book is for
This cookbook is for Tableau professionals,developers, BI administrators, and data analysts ready to explore advanced techniques and deepen their expertise. To make the most of this book, you should either have intermediate to advanced experience with Tableau Desktop and its core functionalities. If you’re coming from another BI background, this book will prove invaluable as it demonstrates Tableau’s real-world applications. Familiarity with products such as Tableau Cloud and Tableau Server is beneficial, but not a prerequisite for using this book.
Table of Contents
- Building Advanced and Efficient Tableau Data Models
- Managing Content and Security at Scale in Tableau
- Leveraging Tableau Cloud‘s Data Management and Advanced Management
- Maximizing Workbook Performance
- Mastering Advanced Calculations to Answer Complex Business Questions
- Creating Interactive Dashboards
- Interactivity and Zone Visibility: from Dashboards to Data Apps
- Advanced Geospatial and Mapping Use Cases
- Extending Tableau with Developer Tools and APIs
- Core Techniques for Impactful Data Design
Review
“Many Tableau books focus too narrowly on isolated features, missing the bigger picture of the platform’s full ecosystem. With Tableau evolving rapidly, there’s been a gap in comprehensive, up-to-date guidance. Pablo and Daria fill this gap in Tableau Cookbook for Experienced Professionals, offering practical examples, sound theory, and actionable strategies for real-world Tableau challenges.” – Tim Ngwena, Tableau Visionary, Principal Analytics Consultant at Aimpoint Digital
“A must-have for data professionals looking to sharpen their Tableau skills.
It’s a well-structured collection of real-world solutions. Whether you’re building performant and interactive dashboards, using, and optimizing advanced calcs, or managing content at scale, this book delivers clear, replicable examples using data that simulates real-world examples.
Highlights include building interactive dashboards, optimizing your workbooks, geospatial analysis you can follow along, blending Tableau with Python, and leveraging the Metadata/REST APIs. I especially appreciated the sections on organizing and migrating content using governance strategies and the Content Migration Tool.
Overall, this cookbook is approachable for those who have started using Tableau, but is also rich in depth for advanced users. I particularly liked the format and continuity to the learning style in each chapter.” – Gus Frazer, Senior Analytics Solutions Engineer at Salesforce
“This book is packed with hands-on examples that go far beyond the basics and offer advanced, scalable solutions for performance tuning, security, and data modeling in Tableau. A must-read for teams managing large deployments and growing complexity.” – Ben Jones, CEO of Data Literacy and Author of AI Literacy Fundamentals
About the Author
Daria Kirilenko is a Tableau consultant with over 8 years of experience in business intelligence and analytics. As the founder of DSCOVR Analytics, she leads a dynamic consulting firm dedicated to delivering data-driven solutions to Fortune 500 companies across North America. In 2022, she led a global Tableau training initiative for Salesforce employees, which was widely recognized for accelerating skill development and driving adoption of Tableau tools in the organization. Daria also serves as a seasoned instructor at Stanford University, where she conducts regular training sessions and customized workshops. Her approach combines technical depth with real-world applications, enabling participants to transform how they work with data.
