Learning Tableau 10: Business Intelligence and data visualization that brings your business into focus, 2nd Edition 2nd ed. Edition

Very good information in this book. Well written. Assumes some experience with computers and programming.

The content of this book will get you started with Tableau and it's updated for 10. The sample code works well too. Definitely worth buying.Just a fair warning, the editing is atrocious. "The preceding example couldmight have been solved ...". There are quite a few example where things should have been formatted differently, especially with italics. The book also doesn't specify, which examples go with which sheets after the first or second chapter.I'd still buy the book to learn Tableau as the author does a good job explaining everything, but I'm not very impressed with the publisher. This seems to be a common problem with Packt books in other reviews too, but there aren't a lot of current book options for Tableau 10, which is what they're probably relying on.

Learning on the job just wasn't cutting it at all as everyone here seems to fumble thru development. I felt much more confident after reading chapter 1.

This book made my job so much easier! We are implementing three new software applications: Tableau, Webi, and Alteryx. These books have been enormously helpful in figuring out what the lessons and job aids should be for new users. This book is easy to understand and I can use the practice files to set up the lessons and figure out content and then use my company's data sources for the actual course materials.This book has been a lifesaver on a project with a short timeline. My only complaint is that entirely too much space is spent on how Tableau works with lots of explanation. Frankly my dear, my users don't give a hoot. They don't want to know what it is and how it works. They want to know how to use it. So it could use a lot less on technical explanation and a lot more "cookbook".

Purchased for online course. Pleased with the book.

So far the content is good, but I would have thought twice about spending $50 on this book had I known that all of the examples, graphs and charts, were in grayscale. It really makes it hard to see the visualizations they way they are intended to look, especially because when using Tableau, so much depends on color. It forces you to look extra hard at the pages and the different shading of gray.Disappointed.

Well done. Using it to teach Tableau around the country.

The information is great but my book came with the odd pages not being printed well. There are two 1/2 inch lines that are completely blank on the page eliminating many sentences and examples. A very poor print. Will be returning book.Update: 4/2/2017 Received a replacement and the book is in excellent condition. Got me to acquire more knowledge of Tableau, there are great videos but I'm more of a book person. I would recommend.