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Tableau Desktop (Level I)
Creating data-backed visualizations is a keyway you can leverage “big data” to glean timely intelligence and realize competitive advantages. Tableau® software was built to connect to a wide range of data sources and allows you to quickly create visualizations of connected data to gain insights, show trends, and create reports. Tableau's data connection capabilities and visualization features go far beyond those that can be found in spreadsheets, allowing you to create compelling and interactive worksheets, dashboards, and stories that bring data to life and turn that information into thoughtful action.
Course Content – Part I Course Content – Part II
Lesson 1: Introduction
Topic A: What is Tableau Desktop?
Topic B: The types of visualizations you can create
Topic C: The Tableau interface
Topic D: The Data Window/Sidebar
Topic E: Data Roles – Discrete versus Continuous
Topic F: Understanding field colors and symbols
Topic G: Understanding field icons
Lesson 2: Working with Imported Data
Topic A: Accessing your data from the program
Topic B: Modifying imported data
Topic C: Changing a measure to dimension or vice versa
Topic D: Setting the default properties for a dimension
Topic E: Setting the default properties for a measure
Lesson 3: Creating Visualizations
Topic A: Creating bar charts
Topic B: Creating heat maps
Topic C: Creating crosstabs
Topic D: Adding row or column totals to crosstabs
Topic E: Creating highlight tables
Topic F: Creating pie charts
Topic G: Creating tree maps
Topic H: Creating histograms and bins
Topic I: Creating combination charts
Topic J: Creating scatter plots
Topic K: Creating motion charts
Lesson 4: Modifying Visualizations
Topic A: Replacing fields in a view
Topic B: Replacing an axis in a view with a different measure
Topic C: Swapping fields
Topic D: Displaying titles, captions and summaries
Topic E: Displaying trend lines
Topic F: Highlighting data with reference lines
Topic G: Highlighting data with reference bands
Topic H: Using the new Analytics Pane
Lesson 5: Sorting data
Topic A: Applying computed sorts
Topic B: Applying manual sorts
Topic C: Applying nested sorts
Lesson 6: Filtering data
Topic A: Displaying quick filters
Topic B: Applying date filters
Topic C: Applying relative date filters
Topic D: Working with dates
Topic E: Range of dates filter
Topic F: Creating a starting or ending date filter
Tableau Desktop (Level II)
The advent of cloud computing and storage has ushered in the era of "big data." With the abundance of computational power and storage, organizations and employees with many different roles and responsibilities can benefit from analyzing data to find timely insights and gain competitive advantage.
Data-backed visualizations allow anyone to explore, analyze, and report insights and trends from data. Tableau® software is designed for this purpose. Tableau was built to connect to a wide range of data sources and allows users to quickly create visualizations of connected data to gain insights, show trends, and create reports. Beyond the fundamental capabilities of creating data driven visualizations, Tableau allows users to manipulate data with calculations to show insights, make visualizations interactive, and perform statistical analysis. This gives users the ability to create and share data driven insights with peers, executives and clients.
Course Content – Part I Course Content – Part II
Lesson 1:Hierarchies, Groups and Sets
Topic A: Creating Hierarchies
Topic B: Creating Regular and Visual Groups
Topic C: Creating sets
Lesson 2: Working with Multiple Measures
Topic A: Creating individual axes
Topic B: Creating blended axes
Topic C: Creating and color coding dual axes
Lesson 3: Mapping
Topic A: Creating a Map
Topic B: Displaying map layers
Topic C: Displaying data layers
Topic D: Mapping Tips!
Topic E: Removing a map background from a filled map
Lesson 4: Calculated Fields
Topic A: Creating a calculation
Topic B: Important things to know about calculations
Topic C: Editing a calculation
Topic D: Concatenating text with a calculation
Topic E: Converting data types with a calculation
Topic F: Modifying dates with a calculation
Topic G: Using logical functions in a calculation
Topic H: Applying Quick Table calculations
Lesson 5: Parameters
Topic A: Creating and using parameters
Lesson 6: Formatting Your View
Topic A: Using the Marks card to apply formatting
Topic B: Applying contextual formatting
Lesson 7: Dashboards
Topic A: Creating a Dashboard
Topic B: Displaying a Title on a Dashboard
Topic C: Renaming a Dashboard
Topic D: Tiled or Floating Objects
Topic E: Hiding a Worksheet
Topic F: Adding an Image to a Dashboard
Topic G: Using a Worksheet in the Dashboard as a filter (AKA Filter Actions)