Course Details
Course Description:
The Tableau Desktop Level 1: Introduction for Experienced IT Professionals Course will teach students how to build and customize their own data visualizations and dashboards. Students will learn to work with Tableau's many wizards and shortcuts to create effective Business Intelligence visualizations quickly and easily. Additionally, the class will cover how to work with calculations, dashboards and stories and help students to understand the various Tableau products that their company may be using.
Course Topics:
- Working with Advanced Visualizations
- Working With Table Calculations
- Telling a Data Story with Dashboards
- Understanding Trends, Clustering, Distributions and Forecasting
- Cleaning and Structuring Messy Data
- Tableau Prep Introduction
- Advanced Visualizations, Techniques, Tips, and Tricks
Target Student:
This two-day course is designed for Tableau users with some prior experience with Tableau or similar analytics software such as Power BI. This fast-paced course will help students understand techniques for creating visualizations and combining them in interactive dashboards. Novice students should consider the Tableau Desktop Level 1: Introduction for Novice Users instead of this course.
Prerequisites:
Students should have experience using Microsoft Excel and Pivot Tables and calculations in Excel are recommended. Use of Windows Operating System is also highly recommended.
Certification Information:
This class offers a strong foundation in preparation for the Tableau Desktop Specialist Exam. The prep guide is shown here: Tableau Desktop Specialist Exam Prep Guide.
Venturing on to Advanced Visualizations
-Comparing Values
-Visualizing Dates and Times
-Relating Parts of the Data to the Whole
-Visualizing Distributions and Multiple Axes to Compare Different Measures
Diving Deep with Table Calculations
-Quick Table Calculations
-Relative Versus Fixed
-Custom Table Calculations
-Data Densification
Making Visualizations that Look Great and Work Well
-Visualization Considerations
-Leveraging Formatting in Tableau
-Adding Value to Visualizations
Telling a Data Story with Dashboards
-Key Concepts for Dashboards
-Designing Dashboards in Tableau
-Designing for Different Displays and Devices
-How Actions Work
-Stories
Digging Deeper – Trends, Clustering, Distributions and Forecasting
-Trends
-Clustering
-Distributions
-Forecasting
Cleaning and Structuring Messy Data
-Structuring Data for Tableau
-Dealing with Data Structure Issues
-Overview of Advanced Fixes for Data Problems
Introducing Tableau Prep
-Getting Prepped to Explore Tableau Prep
-Understanding the Tableau Prep Builder Interface
-Flowing with the Fundamental Paradigm
Advanced Visualizations, Techniques, Tips, and Tricks
-Advanced Visualizations
-Sheet Swapping and Dynamic Dashboards
-Mapping Techniques
-Using Background Images
-Animation
-Transparency
Please check the course description to find prerequisite information.
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The instructor Jeff took his time and made sure we understood each topic before moving to the next. He answered all of our questions, and I don't know about the rest of the students, but was very pleased with this experience.
I finally understand how to use Excel.
-Amanda T (Yale New Haven Hospital).
Great class!
We were able to cover a lot of information in one day without getting overwhelmed.
-Maria R (Microsoft).
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