Duration: 1 Day
Course Overview
This course is designed for the professional who has a solid working experience with Tableau and is eager to take it to the next level. Attendees should have a deep understanding of all the fundamental concepts of building worksheets and dashboards, but may scratch their heads when it comes to table calculations or building advanced visualisations.
How can I attend my course?
COURSE OBJECTIVES
Start to visualise their data using the Tableau software
Course Content
Review of Fundamentals
• Creating A Heat Map
• Creating Scatter Plots
• Creating Combo Charts
• Creating Stacked Bar Charts
• Using Measure Values and Measure Names in a view
Working with Single Data Sources
• Desktop Architecture
• Data Connection Pane
• Metadata Grid
• Using Data Extracts
• Creating Data Extracts
• Joining Tables
• Using Custom SQL
Using Calculations
Short Description
Using Multiple Data Sources
• Data Blending without a Linked Field
• Using Calculated Fields in a Blended View
• Understanding where calculations occur
• Creating and Editing Calculated Fields
• Split
• Custom Split
• Calculations and Aggregations
• Calculations Performed on the Database
• Aggregating Dimensions in Calculations
• Level of Detail Calculations
Advanced Table Calculations
• Table Calculation Overview
• Scope and Direction
• Null Values in Table Calculations
• Table Calculations for Statistical Analysis
Creating and Using Parameters
• Creating Parameters
• Using Parameters
• Using Parameters and Reference Lines
• Creating Dual Axis Charts
Comparing Measures against a goal
• Showing Progress towards Target (Bar in Bar graph)
• Showing Staged progress towards a Target (Bullet graph)
Showing Ranked Data
• Showing Top N / Bottom N Values
• Nested Top N with Context
Tableau Geocoding
• Navigation and selection in Maps
• How Tableau performs Automatic Geocoding of Data
• Modifying Geocode Locations
• Using Background images for Spatial Analysis
Statistics and Forecasting
• Trend Lines
• Forecasting
• Instant Analytics
Showing Distributions of Data
• Reference Distributions
• Pareto Charts (80:20 concept)
Dashboard & Stories
• Planning your Dashboard
• Building your Dashboard with Advanced Techniques
• Adding Actions to your Dashboard
• Visual Best Practices
• Creating Stories with Data