TABLEAU DESKTOP – 2 DAY EDUCATION

Course description:

Learn the Tableau Desktop and Tableau Prep functionality required for new Tableau users. It starts with simple visualizations and moves to an in-depth look at the different chart and graph functions available, calculations, mapping and other ways to display data. The course is provided with the data and hands-on exercises covering all course content, and providing the opportunity to visually analyse data, build interactive dashboards and share them with others.

Audience:

Tableau end users and analysts. No prerequisites are needed.

Approach:

Tell me, I’ll Forget; Show Me, I’ll Remember; Let Me Do It, I’ll Understand

For each topic:

  • the instructor will explain any new concepts to be used and show how to use Tableau Desktop to achieve the desired result
  • the students will follow along with the instructor
  • the students will then practice what they have learnt by doing the exercises

Course Content:

Creating Basic Visualizations

  • Bar chart
  • Geographic map
  • Crosstab report
  • Scatter Plot
  • Line chart

Introduction to Tableau Desktop UI

  • The Tableau Product Line
  • Workbook windows and options
  • Visual Cues

Tableau Prep

  • Tableau Prep

Connecting to Data

  • Live connection
  • Extract Data
  • Combine data sources
  • Join tables
  • Blend data sources
  • Cross-Database Join

Filtering and Sorting Data

  • Filtering
  • Sorting – Custom, Dynamic and Nested

Creating Groups and Hierarchies

  • Groups
  • Hierarchies

Date Functionality

  • Discrete and Continuous dates
  • Fiscal dates

Mapping

  • Mapping roles
  • Geographic maps
  • Filled maps
  • Mapping options

Heat map and Highlight table

  • Difference between heat map and highlight table
  • Heat map
  • Highlight table
  • Highlight table with multiple measures and separate legends
  • Compare heat map to text table

Calculations

  • How to create calculations
  • Data type conversion
  • Aggregations
  • Date calcs
  • Logic – IF and CASE
  • How to handle NULL values

Histogram

  • Histogram
  • Parameter control of the bin size

Dashboards and Actions

  • Dashboard Design
  • Dashboards and dashboard objects
  • Dashboard Actions
    • Filter
    • Highlight
    • Go to URL
    • Go to Sheet
    • Change Parameter
    • Change Set Values

Sharing Your Work

  • Tableau Data Source
  • Tableau Data Extract
  • Tableau Workbook
  • Tableau Packaged Workbook

Date

03 Feb 2020 - 04 Feb 2020

Time

9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Cost

$1,490.00

Labels

Sydney,
Tableau Desktop

Location

Sydney
Level 14, 9 Hunter Street, Sydney
Category