Course Description

This course is designed for the beginner Tableau user. It is for anyone who works with data, regardless of technical or analytical background. This course is designed to help you understand and use the important concepts and techniques in Tableau to move from simple to complex visualizations and learn how to combine them in interactive dashboards.

Objectives

At the end of this class, you will be able to:

• Connect to you data.
• Edit and save a data source.
• Understand Tableau terminology.
• Use the Tableau interface/paradigm to effectively create powerful visualization.
• Create basic calculations including basic arithmetic calculations, custom aggregations and ratios, date math and quick table calculations.
  • Represent your data using the following visualization types:
  • Cross Table
  • Geographic Maps
  • Heat Maps
  • Tree Maps
  • Pie Charts and Bar Charts
  • Highlightt Tables
  • Scatter Plots
• Build dashboards to share visualizations.

Audience

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course.

Content

This course includes a workbook containing key concepts on each topic covered and hands-on activities to reinfroce the skills and knowledge attained.