Learning Tableau
(INTRO-TABLEAU.AJ3)/ISBN:978-1-64459-397-4
Get hands-on experience in Tableau with the Learning Tableau course and lab. Tableau has made it easy and intuitive (and fun!) to be hands-on with the data, to receive instant visual feedback with every action, and to ask questions and uncover insights in a natural flow of thought and interaction. The course Learning Tableau looks at Tableau through the lens of understanding the underlying paradigm of how and why Tableau works in the context of practical examples. It covers the Tableau concepts in detail with well-descriptive interactive lessons containing assessment questions, knowledge checks, and live labs.
Lessons
13+ Lessons | 105+ Quizzes | 116+ Flashcards | 116+ Glossary of terms
TestPrep
50+ Pre Assessment Questions | 50+ Post Assessment Questions |
Hands-On Labs
22+ LiveLab | 22+ Video tutorials | 01:10+ Hours
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Here's what you will learn
Download Course OutlineLessons 1: Introduction
- Who this course is for?
- What this course covers?
- To get the most out of this course
- Download the example code files
- Conventions used
Lessons 2: Taking Off with Tableau
- The cycle of analytics
- Connecting to data
- Foundations for building visualizations
- Visualizing data
- Putting everything together in a dashboard
- Summary
Lessons 3: Working with Data in Tableau
- The Tableau paradigm
- Connecting to data
- Managing data source metadata
- Working with extracts instead of live connections
- Tableau file types
- Joins and blends
- Filtering data
- Summary
Lessons 4: Venturing on to Advanced Visualizations
- Comparing values
- Visualizing dates and times
- Relating parts of the data to the whole
- Visualizing distributions
- Visualizing multiple axes to compare different measures
- Summary
Lessons 5: Starting an Adventure with Calculations
- Introduction to calculations
- Row-level calculations
- Aggregate-level calculations
- Level of detail calculations
- Parameters
- Practical examples of calculations and parameters
- Ad hoc calculations
- Performance considerations
- Summary
Lessons 6: Diving Deep with Table Calculations
- An overview of Table Calculations
- Quick Table Calculations
- Relative versus fixed
- Custom Table Calculations
- Practical examples
- Data densification
- Summary
Lessons 7: Making Visualizations That Look Great and Work Well
- Visualization considerations
- Leveraging formatting in Tableau
- Adding value to visualizations
- Summary
Lessons 8: Telling a Data Story with Dashboards
- Key concepts for dashboards
- Designing dashboards in Tableau
- Dashboard example – is least profitable always unprofitable?
- Designing for different displays and devices
- How actions work
- Dashboard example – regional scorecard
- Stories
- Summary
Lessons 9: Digging Deeper - Trends, Clustering, Distributions, and Forecasting
- Trends
- Clustering
- Distributions
- Forecasting
- Summary
Lessons 10: Cleaning and Structuring Messy Data
- Structuring data for Tableau
- Dealing with data structure issues
- Overview of advanced fixes for data problems
- Summary
Lessons 11: Introducing Tableau Prep
- Getting prepped to explore Tableau Prep
- Understanding the Tableau Prep Builder Interface
- Flowing with the fundamental paradigm
- Summary
Lessons 12: Advanced Visualizations, Techniques, Tips, and Tricks
- Advanced visualizations
- Sheet swapping and dynamic dashboards
- Mapping techniques
- Using background images
- Animation
- Transparency
- Summary
Lessons 13: Sharing Your Data Story
- Presenting, printing, and exporting
- Sharing with users of Tableau Desktop or Tableau Reader
- Sharing with users of Tableau Server, Tableau Online, and Tableau Public
- Summary
Hands-on LAB Activities
Taking Off with Tableau
- Creating a Connection in a New Workbook
- Creating a Bar Chart
- Creating a Line Chart
- Creating Filled, Symbol, and Density Maps
- Using the Show Me Toolbar
- Building a Dashboard
Working with Data in Tableau
- Viewing the Aggregate Data
- Connecting to an Excel File
- Connecting to a Data Source and Managing Metadata
Venturing on to Advanced Visualizations
- Highlighting Categories of Interest
- Building a Bar-in-Bar Chart
- Building a Bullet Graph
- Creating a Gantt Chart
- Creating a Stacked Bar Chart
Starting an Adventure with Calculations
- Performing Aggregate-level Calculations
- Enhancing the User Experience, Analysis, and Visualizations
Diving Deep with Table Calculations
- Performing Quick Table Calculations
Telling a Data Story with Dashboards
- Creating a Dashboard and Implementing Actions
- Using a Set Action
- Creating a Regional Scoreboard
- Creating a Story
Cleaning and Structuring Messy Data
- Creating a Union