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Mysql

MySql: You deal with data every day… When you want to listen to your favorite songs, you open your playlist from your smartphone. In this case, the playlist is a database. When you take a photo and upload it to your account on a social network like Facebook, your photo gallery is a database. When you browse an e-commerce website to buy shoes, clothes, etc., you use the shopping cart database. Databases are everywhere. So what is a database?  By definition, a database is merely a structured collection of data. The data relate to each other by nature, e.g., a product belonged to a product category and associated with multiple tags. Therefore, we use the term  relational database . In the relational database, we model data like products, categories, tags, etc., using tables. A table contains columns and rows. It is like a spreadsheet. A table may relate to another table using a relationship, e.g., one-to-one and one-to-many relationships. Because we deal with ...

EXCEL-made easy

Ms excel is most widely used tool for financial,statistical, and mathematical analysis. How to learn excel. Learn excel by step by step: Introduction    Range Formulas and fucnction(basic that is learned before getting into fuctions chapter) Basics                                                                                                Data Analysis Ribbon Workbook Worksheet Format cells Find and select Templates Data validation keyboard shortcuts Print Share protect Functions                                                                ...

Visual Analytics

Visual analytics is useful in anlysing trends Visual analysisation we can also create. what are the visualizations we can create? many visualizations like scatter,histogram. There are three categories of datas where data falls Nominal-it cannott be compared ordinal-it be order,can compare ratio-compare,difference between,ratio data Nominal data examples: names of employee(name cannot be compared) ordinal data can be put in order...rating of employee(high,low)  ratio data : age of salary, salary of employee, ie first getting twice salary of second employee data should be categorised in that way. if student data is given ,identify it student id rank 1009          2 1008          8 1007         10 it is ordinal data department name of particluar company..it is nominal data. Based on the data given, create visualizations Scatter plot is used to relation between two sets of data. lets co...

Mapping in Tableau

Mapping : At its core, geographical analysis Any point on map represents latitude and longitude coordinates Latitude indicates upper down Longitutde east to west. Map gives you exact insights for the measure u want to analyse

Multiple Insights through tableau

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Lets say what is data visualization?  Data can be visualized pictorial. ie pictorial view of the data through tableau software Tableau offers multiple insights of the business. Lets ask tableau a different questions for the business. Lets considers the retail store data where people are performing transactions and products are ordered and sold by category. This data is huge. Let analyse First connect tableau to the excel file through navigation window and pul the tables to the canvas region of the data source page. tableau automatically assigns join conditions. If the changs have to be made in the grid view. Make changes for changing data type,custom split. First row of the table is column header and it is broken down into dimensions and measures. Lets summarize the questions which we should ask tableau in different ways. 1.What is overall trend of profit and sales of the retail stores. 2.Performance of different regions 3.Profitable and non profitable regions 4. re...

Tableau Extract

What is extract? Creating a subset of original data. Extracting data from native environment to tableau's fast data engine. Extract data by right clicking the tableau data source where the symbol cylinder changes from one to two cylinder u can see and save it as.tde format  u can also view the extract by simply right clicking the tableau data source.

Managing Metadata-Tableau

Managing metadata is the process where we can edit,change dimensions and measures Create hierarchies, rename the dimensions and measures, group by folder and creating folder. Fields can be hidden. Rename by double click create hierarchy rearrage the order create folders right click and group by folders collapse the folders default datatype default colours and edit the colors measure right click default properties ...u can see options like agrregations, hoverin over the field  shows the comment. But in tableau online/server u cant edit the fields but u can extend the calculations. and adding calcualtion. All this a part of data connections and changing the underlying data. Finally if u want to change the data source then right click on the data source and see many options are there.
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Ways to Distribute: Tableau Tableau varies in distribution that differs in interactivity,security and data freshness. Images and PDF are static they do not contain any underlying data which cannot be edited. That is, they are the snapshots taken at particular time. Workbooks packaged can used to share to others.  Tableau reader and Tableau desktop. Tableau reader where we can read and interact but cant be edited.Tableau desktop where we can read,interact and edit workbooks. Workbooks can be published to tableau online/server with security,full interactivity and schedule to have refresh. Packaged workbook contains the underlying data and non packaged workbook does not contain underlying data. For publishing views go to worksheet to Export image (legends,layout,title) options For publishing dashboards ..go to dashboard export image and same story publishing Workbooks can be published to tableau online /server with security, full interactivity and live to data...
Parameters in Tableau: Parameters are dynamic: There are 12 use cases in Parameters....coming Whar are parameters? User can interact dynamically with a view (in simple) So how we can interact in many ways what if TopN....
Chart types in Tableau: Text tables: 1 0r more dimensions: 1 or more measures dimension is nothing but text measure is numbers that is we are going to summarize it. What are Chart Types? Different chart types we can view differently in different directions There are many chart types:  text tables 1 or more dimensions 1 measure heat maps 1 or more dimension 1 or more measure higlight tables
Important rules of aggregation: Dimension is text Measures are numbers For dimension we list unique values For Measures we summarize the data Level of Detaling is understanding

Tableau

Tableau tool provides shareable dashboards.

Business Analytics

Data visualization is showing and understanding the rows of Data in a visual style.