Overview

As complexities are increasing in today's Big data world, Data visualization has become a need of the hour. It not only helps the data scientists to simplify the complex information, but also makes it easier for the business users to understand this information. Over last few years, Tableau has emerged as a golden boy among various Data Visualization tools because its user friendly advanced capabilities.

With help of this Tableau online training you will acquire data visualization skills which are constantly increasing in demand. This Tableau course is very easy to learn and also includes different practical examples ranging from simple reporting analytics to interactive dashboards with storylining. As part of this Tableau course you will also get 2 detailed hands-on case studies to ensure practical Tableau training. Upon completion of this Tableau online course, candidates will be able to build simple and interactive dashboards, add calculated fields and parameter to their reports, customize format reports as well as learn how to work with Tableau server/accessing reports through web.

Duration

24 hours

Intended Audience

Data Scientists/ Business Analysts/ Graduates from various disciplines who want to create visually appealing dynamic reports for performance tracking, etc or get a job in Data Visualization field

Course outlines:

1.      Getting Started

• What is Tableau? What does the Tableau product suite comprise of? How Does Tableau Work?
• Tableau Architecture
• What is My Tableau Repository?
• Connecting to Data & Introduction to data source concepts
• Understanding the Tableau workspace
• Dimensions and Measures
• Data Types & Default Properties
• Tour of Shelves & Marks Card
• Using Show Me!
• Building basic views
• Saving and Sharing your work-overview

2.      Building Views (Reports) – Basics

• Date Aggregations and Date parts
• Cross tab & Tabular charts
• Totals & Subtotals
• Bar Charts & Stacked Bars
• Line Graphs with Date & Without Date
• Tree maps
• Scatter Plots
• Individual Axes, Blended Axes, Dual Axes & Combination chart
• Edit axis
• Parts of Views
• Sorting
• Trend lines
• Reference Lines
• Forecasting
• Filters
• Context filters
• Sets
  • In/Out Sets
  • Combined Sets
  • Grouping
  • Bins/Histograms
  • Drilling up/down – drill through
    • Hierarchies
    • View data
    • Actions (across sheets)

3.      Building Views (Reports) – Advanced Maps

• Explain latitude and longitude
• Default location/Edit locations
• Symbol Map & Filled Map
• Custom Geo Coding

4.      Calculated Fields

• Working with aggregate versus disaggregate data
• Explain - #Number of Rows
• Basic Functions (String, Date, Numbers etc)
• Usage of Logical conditions

5.      Table Calculations

• Explain scope and direction
• Percent of Total, Running / Cumulative calculations

6.      Parameters

• Create What-If analysis
• Using Parameters in
  • Calculated fields
  • Bins
  • Reference Lines
  • Filters/Sets
  • Display Options (Dynamic Dimension/Measure Selection)

7.      Building Interactive Dashboards- (Building & Customizing)

• Combining multiple visualizations into a dashboard (overview)
• Making your worksheet interactive by using actions
  • Filter
  • URL
  • Highlight

8.      Formatting

• Options in Formatting your Visualization
• Working with Labels and Annotations
• Effective Use of Titles and Captions

9.      Working with Data

• Multiple Table Join
• Data Blending
• Difference between joining and blending data, and when we should do each
• Working with the Data Engine / Extracts
• Working with Custom SQL
• Toggle between to Direct Connection and Extracts

10.  Working With Tableau Server – Accessing Reports Through Web

• Publishing to Tableau Server – Overview of publishing
• Server Administration - Managing Users, Projects & Object level and Data Security as per Users
• User Filters