Duration: 2 Days
Course Overview
Designed for the beginner to intermediate level, this course is for staff that work with data – regardless of technical or analytical background. The course teaches the important concepts and techniques used in Tableau Desktop. Attendees will learn how to build a wide variety of visualisations, combining them into interactive dashboards.
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COURSE OBJECTIVES
Effectively visualise data using the Tableau software
Course Content Day 1
An Introduction to Tableau
Lab 1 – Understanding the Interface:
• The Tableau Product Line
• Key Terminology
• Icons and visual cues
• Getting started
• Dimensions & Measures
Consuming Data with Tableau
Lab 2 – Connecting to Data Sources:
• Creating a Live Data Connection
• Metadata Grid
• Exporting to an image file
• Changes to the Data
• Desktop Architecture
• Data Connection Pane
• Joining Tables
Creating Visualizations
Lab 3 – Visualizing Data:
• Creating Heat Maps
• Creating Crosstabs
• Creating Scatter Plots
• Creating Combo Charts
• Creating Stacked Bar Charts
• Creating Grand Totals, Sub-Totals and Changing Aggregation
• Filtering Data
• Creating Date Filters
• Sorting Data
• Using Groups
• Creating Hierarchies
• Using Hierarchies
• Slicing Data by Date
• Defining Discrete and Continuous Dates
• Using Discrete Date Parts
• Defining a Fiscal Year
• Creating Custom Dates
• Using Measure Values and Measure Names
• Creating Combo Charts
• Creating Combined or Shared Axis Charts
• Creating Dual Axis Charts
• Creating Scatter Plots
• Creating Sets
•Using Sets
• Using the Analytics Pane
• Instant Analytics
• Creating Parameters
• Using Parameters
• Using Parameters and Reference Lines
• Creating Dual Axis Charts
• Box and Whisker Chart
• Bar in Bar
Course Content Day 2
Creating Calculated Fields
Lab 4 – Creating and consuming calculations:
• Calculation Types
• Creating Calculated Fields
• Strings, Dates and Type Conversation Functions
• Creating and Editing Calculated Fields
• Split
• Custom Split
• Calculations and Aggregations
• Calculations Performed on the Database
• Aggregating Dimensions in Calculations
• Level of Detail Calculations
Geographic Data
Lab 5 – Mapping Geographic Data:
• Mapping in Tableau
• Geographic Mapping
• Background Maps and Layers
8 Navigation and Selection in Maps
Dashboards and Stories
Lab 6 – Sharing Insights:Dashboards
• Dashboard Actions
• Creating a Story
Distributing Workbooks
• Saving and Editing a Data Source
• Sharing a Data Source
• Using Data Extracts
• Creating Data Extracts
• Exporting Data only
• Sharing Options