Tableau Desktop I: Fundamentals
Training at a glance
Level
Beginner
Duration
2 Days
Experience
1 year: Tableau
Average Salary
$72,000
Labs
Yes
Level
Beginner
Duration
2 Days
Experience
1 year: Tableau
Average Salary
$72,000
Labs
Yes
Training Details
When you complete this course, you will be able to:
- Connect to data and edit a data source.
- Sort, filter, and group data.
- Use the Tableau workspace to create visualizations.
- Build a range of essential chart types for analysis.
- Create basic calculations, including quick table calculations.
- Build interactive dashboards to reveal data insights.
- Describe how to share and publish visualizations.
Introduction to Tableau
- The Tableau Platform
- Application Terminology
- Visual Cues for Fields
- Understanding Permissions in Tableau
- Navigating a Tableau Site
Tableau Workflow
- Understanding the Tableau Workflow
- Elements of a Visualization
- Getting Started in Tableau
Setting Up Connections and Data Sources
- Tableau File Types and Extensions
- Creating a Live Data Connection
- Saving and Editing a Data Source
- Modifying Data Attributes
• Understanding Changes to Data
Simplifying and Sorting Your Data
- Data Filtering
- Creating Date Filters
- Sorting
Organizing Your Data
- Using Groups
- Creating and Using Hierarchies
Viewing Specific Values
- Creating Crosstabs
- Grand Totals, Subtotals, and Changing
Aggregation - Creating Highlight Tables
Slicing Your Data by Date
- Working with Dates in Tableau
- Using Discrete Date Parts and
Continuous Date Values - Using Multiple Measures in a View
- Using Measure Values and Measure
Names in a View
• Combined or Shared Axis Charts
• Creating Dual Axis Charts
Showing the Relationship Between Numerical Values
- Showing Correlations and Outliers
with Scatter Plots - Create a Scatter Plot
- Analyze Using the Highlighter
- Analyze an Outlier Using Explain Data
- Using the Analytics Pane
- Trend Lines and Trend Model
- Reference Lines and Bands
Mapping Data Geographically
- Mapping in Tableau
- Navigation and Selection in Maps
Customizing Your Data
- Using Calculations in Tableau
- Calculation Types
- Creating and Editing Calculated
Fields - Formula Editor Conventions
- Types of Calculated Fields - Examples
- Calculations and Aggregations
- String Functions
- Split and Custom Split
- Type Conversions
- Date Calculations - Examples
Analyzing Data with Quick Table Calculations
- Table Calculation Overview
- Using Quick Table Calculations
- Using Rank to Show Biggest to
Smallest
Showing Breakdowns of the Whole
- Pie Charts and Parts of the
Whole - Creating Tree Maps
Making Your Views Available
- Dashboards
- Dashboard Actions
- Publish Your Dashboard Online
New Tableau users and those seeking a formal introduction to Tableau.
- Administrator Architect
- Business Analyst
- Consultant
- Designer
- End User
- Marketer
There are no prerequisites for this course.
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