Tableau Books — 5 Best Books that will boost your learning

Himani Bansal
4 min readMar 12, 2019

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“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.” - Orhan Pamuk

Now imagine, if you follow this quote and start learning Tableau from books, then how much of knowledge you can gain, and soon can become Tableau Expert.

And to help you in becoming an expert with Tableau, here I am providing a list of 5 Best Tableau Books, that will boost your learnings and will help you in grabbing strong hands-on Tableau.

So, let us start with top Tableau books-

1. Learning Tableau

Learning Tableau

by Joshua N. Milligan

It is necessary to turn the huge amounts of data into something useful and understandable. And this is where Tableau comes in. Tableau is capable of translating one's action into a database query with a graphical presentation of the responses

The book “ Learning Tableau” provides Tableau Introduction and helps you to create your first dashboard in Tableau 9.0. This book contains some useful tips and tricks as well as teaching you to use dashboards to tell data stories. It also teaches you how to share these stories of data. It also contains some practical examples along with detailed explanations of how and why different techniques work. This book will, therefore, help you to quickly learn and master Tableau.

2. Tableau Your Data - Fast & Easy Visual Analysis with Tableau Software

Tableau Your Data — Fast & Easy Visual Analysis with Tableau Software

by Daniel G. Murray

In spite of Tableau Desktop’s relative intuitive interface, this book moves beyond the simple mechanics of interface that shows best practices to create effective visualizations for specific BI goals. It demonstrates less-known Tableau Terminologies, features, and techniques for getting the most from the Tableau Toolset, thus, supporting the business analysts needs.

This book also contains a core data analytics feature set that illustrates the best practices to create and share specific types of dynamic data visualization. In addition, the book covers data analysis with a helpful full-color layout featuring Tableau Desktop. It also carries information sharing with Tableau Server, understanding the functions of Tableau as well as calculations.

3. Communicating Data with Tableau

by Ben Jones

This practical guide will show you the path of how to download Tableau and use Tableau Software, in order to convert the raw data into compelling visualizations of data. It also provides an insight or allows viewers to explore the data on their own.

This book is also ideal for analysts, technicians, marketers, journalists, and researchers. This book also describes the principles of data communication and the flow of Tableau Design and takes you on a thorough tour of common methods of visualization.

4. Tableau Dashboard Cookbook

by Donabel Santos

This cookbook provides a fun and easy-to-use way to design, build and share dashboards. It will also familiarize us with its Tableau Navigation features and enable us to develop and enhance your dashboard skills, starting with an overview of what dashboard is followed by how data can be collected using different mathematical formulas.

We will also learn how to filter and group data and how to use different functions to present the data in an attractive and accurate manner. This book also contains key advanced string functions for data and images playback. We will also walk through Tableau’s various features including dual axes, matrices of scatterplots, heat maps, and sizing. Whether it’s on a server or in collaboration with other tools, this book will help you consider what to do next with your dashboard.

5. Tableau Questions and Answers — Guide to Tableau concepts and FAQs

by Chandraish Sinha

In Tableau, the book Tableau Questions & Answers: Tableau Concepts Guide and FAQs answers 100 + questions. It also explains all the Tableau concepts in a question — and — answer format that is easy to understand.

It also offers various scenarios and explains which tableau feature we can use in various scenarios. It also offers plenty of practice exercises. This book also comes with a workbook on Solution, which can be used to practice various exercises.

So, this was all about Top Tableau Books. Hope you like the explanation.

Conclusion

So, these were some of the best books on Tableau, with an overview of the contents of the books, that will help you to meet your requirements. Thus, helping you in selecting the best one for you to learn Tableau.

Don’t stop your learning with just knowing about the books, explore the unique features of Tableau, and get skilled with Tableau.

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Himani Bansal

Doing my Best to Explain Data Science (Data Scientist, technology freak & Blogger)