Course Outline
Introduction and Getting Started
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Filtering, Sorting & Grouping
- Advanced options for filtering and hiding data
- Understanding various methods for ordering and grouping your data
- Sort, Groups, Bins, Sets
- Interrelation between all available options
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Working with Data in Tableau
- Dimension versus Measures
- Data types: Discrete versus Continuous
- Joining Database sources
- Inner, Left, Right joins
- Blending different data sources in a single worksheet
- Working with extracts instead of live connections for government use
- Addressing data quality issues
- Metadata and sharing a connection
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Calculations on Data and Statistics
- Row-level calculations
- Aggregate calculations
- Arithmetic, string, date calculations
- Custom aggregations and calculated fields
- Control-flow calculations
- Understanding the underlying processes
- Advanced Statistics
- Working with dates and times
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Table Calculations
- Quick table calculations
- Scope and direction of calculations
- Addressing and partitioning data
- Advanced table calculations
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Advanced Geo Techniques
- Building basic maps
- Geographic fields and map options
- Customizing a geographic view
- Web Map Service integration
- Visualizing non-geographical data with background images
- Mapping tips and best practices
- Distance calculations
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Parameters in Tableau
- Creating parameters for data analysis
- Using parameters in calculated fields
- Parameter control options
- Enhancing analysis and visualizations with parameters
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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
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Advanced Formatting
- Labels customization
- Legends management
- Highlighting techniques
- Annotations for data insights
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Telling a Data Story with Dashboards
- Dashboard framework design
- Filter actions implementation
- Highlight actions for enhanced interactivity
- URL actions for external links
- Cascading filters for efficient data navigation
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Trends and Forecasting
- Understanding and customizing trend lines
- Analyzing distributions
- Forecasting techniques
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Integrating Tableau and R for Advanced Data Analytics
- Possibility to include various data analytics methods in R based on participant requests
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