Catching Up with Tableau 2018

Thank you for purchasing Getting Started with Tableau 2018. As its title suggests, this book aims to provide you with explanations, advice, tips, and the best practices to start (or continue) a journey through Tableau, using the most recent features. You'll always find clear descriptions, reproducible examples, and tutorials. Whether you already know how to use Tableau and want to get familiar with its latest features, or you've never used the tool and want to learn from the beginning, this book is for you, and I hope you enjoy it.

If you are a Tableau user looking for information about the new features and how to use them, you are in the right place. If you are new to Tableau, start with Chapter 2, The Tableau Core, to learn about the basics and advanced features of Tableau. Throughout this book, many new features will be explained. Having finished all of the chapters, you can come back here to learn about the newest features, in detail.

In this first chapter, we'll cover the new features in Tableau's 2018 releases (Tableau 2018.1, 2018.2, and 2018.3).

This chapter will be divided into two parts, as follows:

• Tableau Desktop
• Tableau Server

For each part, each major feature has its proper section. Next to the name of the feature, between brackets, the version that introduced the new feature is specified. For example, the section spatial Join (2018.2) covers the feature spatial Join, added in version 2018.2.

Let's start with Tableau Desktop; get ready to discover many great new features!