Introduction 1 Book 1: Learning Data Analytics & Visualizations Foundations 7 Chapter 1: Exploring Definitions and Roles 9 Chapter 2: Delving into Big Data 19 Chapter 3: Understanding Data Lakes 41 Chapter 4: Wrapping Your Head Around Data Science 51 Chapter 5: Telling Powerful Stories with Data Visualization 81 Book 2: Using Power BI for Data Analytics & Visualization 107 Chapter 1: Power BI Foundations 109 Chapter 2: The Quick Tour of Power BI 123 Chapter 3: Prepping Data for Visualization 141 Chapter 4: Tweaking Data for Primetime 167 Chapter 5: Designing and Deploying Data Models 183 Chapter 6: Tackling Visualization Basics in Power BI 203 Chapter 7: Digging into Complex Visualization and Table Data 227 Chapter 8: Sharing and Collaborating with Power BI 247 Book 3: Using Tableau for Data Analytics & Visualization 265 Chapter 1: Tableau Foundations 267 Chapter 2: Connecting Your Data 285 Chapter 3: Diving into the Tableau Prep Lifecycle 313 Chapter 4: Advanced Data Prep Approaches in Tableau 337 Chapter 5: Touring Tableau Desktop 351 Chapter 6: Storytelling Foundations in Tableau 371 Chapter 7: Visualizing Data in Tableau 391 Chapter 8: Collaborating and Publishing with Tableau Cloud 425 Book 4: Extracting Information with SQL 443 Chapter 1: SQL Foundations 445 Chapter 2: Drilling Down to the SQL Nitty-Gritty 455 Chapter 3: Values, Variables, Functions, and Expressions 487 Chapter 4: SELECT Statements and Modifying Clauses 513 Chapter 5: Tuning Queries 539 Chapter 6: Complex Query Design 557 Chapter 7: Joining Data Together in SQL 591 Book 5: Performing Statistical Data Analysis & Visualization with R Programming 605 Chapter 1: Using Open Source R for Data Science 607 Chapter 2: R: What It Does and How It Does It 623 Chapter 3: Getting Graphical 651 Chapter 4: Kicking It Up a Notch to ggplot2 671 Book 6: Applying Python Programming to Data Science 689 Chapter 1: Discovering the Match between Data Science and Python 691 Chapter 2: Using Python for Data Science and Visualization 703 Chapter 3: Getting a Crash Course in Matplotlib 721 Chapter 4: Visualizing the Data 739 Index 761.