This completely revised guide to Tableau 9 provides readers with hands-on instruction and best practices to meet business intelligence objectives and drive better decision making based on real data discovery. Tableau 9 combines two primary features that set it apart from other BI products: automatic best-practice visualization and rapid Fire BI. Powerful Tableau visualizations can be developed in minutes, where other tools often take hours or longer. Tableau 9: The official Guide, second edition lays out the latest methods for creating and sharing customized data visualizations and high-performance dashboards with Tableau. The book includes downloadable video tutorials that demonstrate the techniques covered in the book. Readers will learn how to how to work from the Tableau GUI, load BI from disparate sources, drag and drop to analyze data, set up custom visualizations, and build highly interactive dashboards. \n\nHighlights: \n1. Build meaningful dashboards and analytics in minutes or hours, not days or weeks \n2. Features downloadable training videos that bring every example to life \n3. Author and Certified Tableau trainer George Peck presents each topic in his highly successful teaching style.