Introduction to Tableau | Tableau QuickStart

Course Code: 1218

$895

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Overview

This is a one-day, hands-on course targeted towards participants who are new to using Tableau or for those who want a quick refresher of the basic concepts and fundamentals. The course equips participants with the skills essential to leverage important concepts and techniques in Tableau to move from simple to complex visualizations. The course also discusses how to combine these visualizations in interactive dashboards. The course comprises of interactive hands-on exercises to reinforce the concepts learnt and develop a real competency among the participants.

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Course Delivery

This course is available in the following formats:

Live Classroom
Duration: 1 days

Live Virtual Classroom
Duration: 1 days

What You'll learn

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

Outline

Module 1: Simplifying and sorting the data

Data Filtering
Creating Date Filters
Sorting

Module 2: Organizing the data

Using Groups
Creating and Using Hierarchies

Module 3: Slicing Your Data by Date

Working with Dates in Tableau
Using Discrete Date Parts
Defining a Fiscal Year
Creating Custom Dates

Module 4: 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

Module 5: Showing the relationship between numerical values

Creating Scatter Plots
Using Sets

Module 6: Viewing specific values

Creating Heat Maps
Creating Crosstabs
Creating Highlight Tables
Grand Totals, Sub-Totals, and Changing Aggregation

Module 7: Customizing Your Data

Calculation Types
Parts of a Calculated Field
Options for Creating Calculated Fields
Strings, Dates, and Type Conversion Functions
Calculations and Aggregations

Module 8: Analyzing Data with Quick Table Calculations

Using Quick Table Calculations

Module 9: Showing Breakdowns of the Whole

Pie Charts and Parts of the Whole
Creating Tree Maps

Module 10: Viewing Distributions

Bins and Histograms
Box and Whisker Plots

Module 11: Making Your Views Available

Building Dashboards
Dashboard Actions

Prerequisites

This is an introductory-level course, ideal for would-be Tableau users who want to come up to speed with intermediate-level Tableau features and functions. Participants would benefit from having some experience working with data, irrespective of their technical or analytical background.