Working within an engaging, hands-on learning environment led by our Tableau expert practitioner, attendees will learn to:
Understand Tableau terminology
Use the Tableau interface / paradigm to effectively create powerful visualizations
Create basic calculations including string manipulation, basic arithmetic calculations, custom aggregations and ratios, date math, logic statements and quick table calculations
Use groups, bins, hierarchies, sorts, sets, and filters to create focused and effective visualizations
Use Measure Name and Measure Value fields to create visualizations with multiple measures and dimensions.
Handle changes in your data source such as field addition, deletion or name changes.
Share your visualizations with others.
Combine your visualizations into Interactive Dashboards and publish them to the web.
Represent your data using the following visualization types:
Cross tabs
Heat maps
Distribution charts
Tree maps
Pie charts and bar charts
Dual axis and combo charts with different mark types
Box plots
Highlight tables
Scatter plots
This is an introductory-level Tableau course geared for attendees new to using the tool, or for those who want a refresher of the basics or newer features. Ideal attendees would be beginner Tableau users who want to quickly get up to speed with intermediate level Tableau features and functions.
- Individuals working with data-regardless of technical or analytical background are a fit for this course.
- Simplifying and Sorting Your Data
- Data Filtering
- Creating Date Filters
- Sorting
- Organizing Your Data
- Using Groups
- Creating and Using Hierarchies
- Slicing Your Data by Date
- Working with Dates in Tableau
- Using Discrete Date Parts
- Defining a Fiscal Year
- Creating Custom Dates
- Using Multiple Measures in a View
- Using Measure Values and Measure Names in a View
- Combo Charts
- Combined or Shared Axis Charts
- Creating Dual Axis Charts
- Showing the Relationship between Numerical Values
- Creating Scatter Plots
- Using Sets
- Viewing Specific Values
- Creating Heat Maps
- Creating Crosstabs
- Creating Highlight Tables
- Grand Totals, Sub-Totals, and
- Changing Aggregation
- Customizing Your Data
- Calculation Types
- Parts of a Calculated Field
- Options for Creating Calculated Fields
- Strings, Dates, and Type Conversion Functions
- Calculations and Aggregations
- Analyzing Data with Quick Table Calculations
- Using Quick Table Calculations
- Showing Breakdowns of the Whole
- Pie Charts and Parts of the Whole
- Creating Tree Maps
- Viewing Distributions
- Bins and Histograms
- Box and Whisker Plots
- Making Your Views Available
- Building Dashboards
- Dashboard Actions
Course is based on software release: Tableau
Course notes and announcements:
Introduction to Tableau / Tableau Quickstart is a one day hands-on, quickstart to Tableau course geared for attendees new to using the tool, or for those who want a refresher of the basics or newer features. Ideal attendees would be beginner Tableau users who want to quickly get up to speed with intermediate level Tableau features and functions. Students will leave this course armed with the required skills to leverage the important concepts and techniques in Tableau to move from simple to complex visualizations. Students will also learn how to combine them in interactive dashboards. Comprehensive hands on exercises are integrated throughout to reinforce learning and develop real competency.
If your team requires different topics or tools, additional skills or different approach, this course may be further adjusted to accommodate. We offer additional Tableau, data handling, database, reporting and other related courses which may be blended with this course for a track that best suits your learning objectives.
Follow-On Courses:
None
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The Tableau Training Series: QuickStart to using core Tableau data and reporting functions
