Join an engaging hands-on learning environment, where you’ll learn to:
Connect to your data
Edit and save a data source
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 Reference Lines to highlight elements of your data.
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.
This course has a 50% hands-on labs to 50% lecture ratio with engaging instruction, demos, group discussions, labs, and project work.
New Tableau users and those seeking a formal introduction to Tableau.
- Introduction
- Tableau Desktop and the Tableau Product Line
- Application Terminology
- Visual Cues for Fields
- Getting Started in Tableau Desktop
- Elements of a Visualization
- Connecting to Data
- Creating a Live Data Connection
- Saving and Editing a Data Source
- Metadata Grid
- Understanding Changes to Data
- Data Connection Options
- Sharing Options
- 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
- Mapping Data Geographically
- Mapping in Tableau
- Geographic Mapping
- Background Maps and Layers
- Navigation and Selection in Maps
- 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
- Highlighting Data with Reference Lines
- Using Reference Lines
- Reference Bands
- Using the Analytics Pane
- Instant Analytics
- Making Your Views Available
- Building Dashboards
- Dashboard Actions
Course is based on software release: Tableau
Course notes and announcements:
This course is designed to help you understand and apply important Tableau concepts and techniques to move from simple to complex visualizations. You will also learn how to combine them in interactive dashboards.
Follow-On Courses:
Tableau Visual Analytics Essentials (TTDTAB019)
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Learn the key concepts and techniques to build visualizations in Tableau.
