Top Tableau Books to Read in 2024
Practical Tableau
“Practical Tableau” is a beginner-friendly book that guides readers to build compelling and interactive data visualization applications. The author also provides around 100 tips, tutorials, and strategies to avoid pitfalls and help readers advance their Tableau knowledge.
Innovative Tableau
“Innovative Tableau” is a logical follow-up to “Practical Tableau”. It delves deeper into improving the user and author experience and explores unique charts in Tableau, such as timelines, custom gauges, and leapfrog charts, along with how to innovate traditional ones.
Tableau For Dummies
“Tableau For Dummies” teaches how to transform the data into a story that inspires actions. It guides from an enterprise viewpoint on deriving value from data using visualizations in Tableau.
Tableau Strategies
This book is a guide to using Tableau to solve real-world analytics problems. It covers how to create captivating visualizations, dashboards, and data products. The book also touches upon some advanced topics like multidimensional analysis and user experience.
Tableau Desktop Cookbook
“Tableau Desktop Cookbook” helps its readers navigate through Tableau Desktop. The author provides more than 100 practical recipes to enhance the way we build dashboards. The book also has numerous hands-on exercises to help experience the latest Tablaeu features, such as set and parameter actions.
Tableau Desktop Pocket Reference
This book is a handy pocket reference covering the essential features, syntax, and data visualization of Tableau Desktop. It guides through the tool’s learning curve and covers how to create the most effective charts.
Mastering Tableau 2023
This guide teaches how to build advanced business intelligence solutions using Tableau’s newest updates. It covers how to perform data preparation, complex joins, spatial joins, unions, and data blending tasks with the help of practical examples. Moreover, the book discusses the use of machine learning models in Tableau.
Tableau Your Data!
“Tableau Your Data!” is a comprehensive guide to using the core features of the tool for data analytics. The book also covers some of the advanced techniques in Tableau that go beyond the user manual. It also allows the readers to learn the actual workings of visualizations via a companion website.
Data Modeling with Tableau
This book is a practical guide to building data models using Tableau. It covers the features of Tableau Prep Builder with hands-on exercises and is ideal for analysts looking to expand their data skills.
Visual Analytics with Tableau
This book teaches non-technical business owners how to get started with Tableau and create compelling visualizations and insightful dashboards. The book also covers how to use aggregation, calculated fields, and parameters and how to share the dashboard with others.
Tableau Prep
This book covers all about Tableau Prep, providing a step-by-step guide to using the tool for better analysis of the data. It covers methods for preparing, organizing, automating, and outputting the datasets and explores the different ways Tableau Prep techniques can be used in real-world scenarios.
Dashboarding with Tableau
“Dashboarding with Tableau” guides how to design interactive dashboards in Tableau. The book has more than 150 exercises to follow along, covering concepts like data load, relationships, joins, and visualization techniques.
Statistical Tableau
This book covers how to use statistical models and decision science is Tableau. The book explores multiple ways anomalies can be detected and visualized and explains the way regression models, forecasting, and clustering can be implemented in the tool.
The Big Book of Dashboards
This book is based on different industrial scenarios and offers practical and effective visualization examples. The book talks about the tools and models that are needed to produce informative dashboards.
Storytelling with Data
“Storytelling with Data” helps build confidence to build graphs and visualizations capable of inspiring actions. The book has numerous real-world examples with step-by-step explanations, allowing readers to gain hands-on experience.
Communicating Data with Tableau
“Communicating Data with Tableau” shows how to leverage Tableau to transform raw data into captivating visualizations. The book explains the principles of communicating data and teaches how to craft effective data visualizations.
Enhancing Tableau with Python and R
This book covers how to perform advanced analytics in Tableau using Python and R. The book covers how to improve storytelling by applying predictive functions and integrating models in the visualizations. It also demonstrates how to pair Tableau with Jupyter Notebooks, Heroku, AWS S3, and Apache Spark.
Tableau for Healthcare
“Tableau for Healthcare” is a first-of-its-kind book written by and for healthcare professionals. The book covers topics like data connections, calculated fields, table calculations, set actions, parameters, and forecasting. It also contains numerous real-world examples with the option to download the data.
