Tableau Visual Analytics Classroom Live Seattle, WA June 09, 2021

Course Overview

• Getting Started with Tableau

  Employing visual analysis and analytics

  • Appreciating the impact of Big Data on visualization
  • Handling large volumes of data
  • Presenting visualizations to analysts and business users

  Exploring Tableau

  • Utilizing the Tableau interface components
  • Distinguishing measures and dimensions
  • Generating basic visualizations

• Data Visualizations for Business Intelligence

  Accessing a single data source

  • Extracting data from Excel and text files
  • Pulling data from Microsoft Access

  Working with marks and views

  • Applying different Views for finding value
  • Categorizing data with Marks

  Graphing data

  • Constructing a histogram
  • Filtering to reduce volume of data
  • Sorting to impose order
  • Organizing data by grouping

• Loading Data into Tableau

  Modifying the Tableau data schema

  • Declaring data types
  • Aliasing column headings
  • Resolving issues with the Data Interpreter
  • Contrasting live connections versus extracts

  Importing from multiple data sources

  • Reading Excel and text files
  • Integrating a Microsoft Access table
  • Executing a database join

  Connecting to an enterprise database

  • Selecting data from a relational database
  • Consuming data from a big data framework

  Combining data with joins and blends

  • Joining heterogeneous tables
  • Integrating sources by blending data

• Building Advanced Visualizations

  Leveraging visualization techniques

  • Generating Crosstabs and Pivot Tables
  • Establishing hierarchies and drilling down
  • Defining sets and subsets
  • Dividing the view into pages

  Applying parameters

  • Slicing a view with filers
  • Specifying data with a selector

  Charting with advanced features

  • Reviewing available chart templates
  • Employing combination charts
  • Exploiting trends and moving averages

• Leveraging Table Calculations

  Calculated fields

  • Formulating a calculation to enhance data
  • Identifying calculation types

  Table calculations

  • Implementing quick table calculations
  • Editing table calculations for a refined data view
  • Creating level of detail calculations

• Representing Locations with Tableau Maps

  Mapping geographic data

  • Plotting latitude and longitude
  • Adding points manually

  Surveying map types

  • Categorizing with the symbol map and filled map
  • Customizing regions with polygon maps

• Presenting Insights

  Authoring dashboards

  • Assembling dashboards from views
  • Linking the views for interaction

  Narrating a story

  • Illustrating discoveries with a story
  • Capturing story points within the dashboards

• Disseminating Visualizations

• Sharing your workbook
• Publishing to the cloud
• Deploying your workbook to Tableau Server
• Administering the server