Course Outline
Introduction and Getting Started
Filtering, Sorting & Grouping
- Advanced options for filtering and hiding
- Understanding many options for ordering and grouping your data
- Sort, Groups, Bins, Sets
- Interrelation between all options
Working with Data in Tableau
- Dimension versus Measures
- Data types, Discrete versus Continous
- Joining Database sources,
- Inner, Left, Right join
- Blending different datasources in a single worksheet
- Working with extracts instead of live connections
- Data quality problems
- Metadata and sharing a connection
Calculations on Data and Statistics
- Row-level calculations
- Aggregate calculations
- Arithmetic, string, date calculations
- Custom aggregations and calculated fields
- Control-flow calculations
- What is behind the scene
- Advanced Statistics
- Working with dates and times
Table Calculations
- Quick table calculations
- Scope and direction
- Addressing and partitioning
- Advanced table calculations
Advanced Geo techniques
- Building basic maps
- Geographic fields, map options
- Customizing a geographic view
- Web Map Service
- Visualizing non geographical data with background images
- Mapping tips
- Distance Calculations
Parameters in tableau
- Creating parameters
- Parameters in calculated fields
- Parameter control options
- Enhancing analysis and visualizations with parameters
Building Advanced Chart Visualizations
- Bar chart variations –bullet, bar-in-bar, highlights chart
- Date and time visualizations, gantt charts
- Stacked bars, treemaps, area charts, pie charts
- Heat map
- KPI chart
- Pareto chart
- Bullet chart
Advanced formattting
- Labels
- Legends
- Highlighting
- Annotations
Telling a data story with Dashboards
- Dashboard framework
- Filter actions
- Highlight actions
- URL actions
- Cascading filters
Trends and Forecasting
- Understanding and Customizing trend lines
- Distributions
- Forecasting
Integrating Tableau and R for advanced data analytics
- Possibility to include different data analytics methods in R on participants request
Requirements
- An understanding of Tableau fundamentals, including data connections and basic visualizations
- Experience with creating dashboards and worksheets in Tableau
- Basic data analysis and data visualization concepts
Audience
- Data analysts seeking to deepen their Tableau skills
- Business intelligence professionals working with data visualization
- Advanced Excel or reporting users transitioning to Tableau
Testimonials (7)
Great knowledge of the content, good examples, great rapport with the class and very understanding if anyone needed extra help. Willing to stop and go back to explain things again and in a manner in which could be easily understood.
Martina O'Neill - Tech NorthWest Skillnet
Course - Tableau Advanced
Ability to direct the content covered to suit individual needs
Stefan Wroblewski - Tech NorthWest Skillnet
Course - Tableau Advanced
Ability to direct the content covered to suit individual needs
Stefan Wroblewski - Tech NorthWest Skillnet
Course - Tableau Advanced
The number of working examples.
Sharon Clarke - Tech NorthWest Skillnet
Course - Tableau Advanced
The number of working examples.
Sharon Clarke - Tech NorthWest Skillnet
Course - Tableau Advanced
Learning the different ways to present data
Katie Matthews - Quofox GmbH
Course - Tableau Advanced
all the materials and how the trainer teach