Course Outline
Introduction
Configuring Tableau
Overview of Tableau Features and Architecture
Navigating the Tableau User Interface
Establishing Data Connections
Data Organization, Filtering, Sorting, & Grouping
- Structuring your data
- Filtering data by date
- Simplifying and sorting datasets
- Advanced filtering and hiding options
- Exploring diverse ordering and grouping capabilities
- Sorting, groups, bins, and sets
- Interrelations between configuration options
Data Manipulation in Tableau
- Utilizing multiple measures within a view
- Visualizing relationships between numerical values
- Displaying specific data values
- Customizing data presentation
- Distinguishing between dimensions and measures
- Data types: discrete versus continuous measures
- Joining database sources
- Inner, outer, left, and right joins
- Blending multiple data sources in a single worksheet
- Using extracts versus live connections
- Addressing data quality issues
- Managing metadata and sharing connections
Data Calculations and Statistics
- Row-level calculations
- Aggregate calculations
- Arithmetic, string, and date calculations
- Custom aggregations and calculated fields
- Control-flow calculations
- Understanding underlying processes
- Advanced statistical methods
- Working with dates and times
Table Calculations for Data Analysis
- Quick table calculations
- Scope and direction
- Addressing and partitioning
- Advanced table calculation techniques
Advanced Geographic Techniques
- Creating basic maps
- Geographic fields and map options
- Geographically mapping data
- Customizing geographic views
- Web Map Service (WMS)
- Visualizing non-geographical data with background images
- Mapping best practices
- Distance calculations
Parameters in Tableau
- Creating parameters
- Using parameters in calculated fields
- Parameter control options
- Enhancing analysis and visualizations via parameters
Creating Basic and Advanced Visualizations
- Cross tabs
- Geographic maps, heat maps, and tree maps
- Pie charts and bar charts
- Date/time visualizations and Gantt charts
- Stacked bars and area charts
- KPI charts and Pareto charts
- Dual-axis and combined charts with varied mark types
- Highlight tables
- Scatter plots
- Bar chart variations, including bullet charts and bar-in-bar
Advanced Formatting
- Labels
- Legends
- Highlighting data with reference lines
- Annotations
Data Storytelling with Dashboards
- Dashboard framework
- Filter actions
- Highlight actions
- URL actions
- Cascading filters
Trends and Forecasting
- Customizing trend lines
- Distributions
- Forecasting
Integrating Tableau and R for Advanced Data Analytics
- Including specific R-based data analytics methods upon participant request
Troubleshooting
Summary and Conclusion
Requirements
- Familiarity with business intelligence concepts and data visualization practices
Target Audience
- Data analysts
- Data scientists
Testimonials (3)
The Practice, I created a dashboard is super easy, once time understand the subjects.
Luis Fernando - si
Course - Tableau Fundamentals to Advanced
Hand's on exercise under the control of trainer. All attendees were thus highly encouraged to participate.
Gerard Suissa - Brown-Forman France
Course - Tableau Fundamentals to Advanced
The trainer answered all of my questions and gives us a walkthrough.
