Tableau Cookbook for Experienced Professionals: Over 60 advanced recipes for maximizing performance

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
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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