Tableau Fundamentals

There are no specific requirements needed to attend this course.

During the course you will be able to:

This is a Tableau user beginners course; it is intended for anyone who is looking to work with data and is designed to help you use the main functions in Tableau.

• Connect to your data.
• Edit and save a data source.
• Understand Tableau terminology.
• Use the Tableau interface / paradigm to effectively create powerful visualizations.
• 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 tabs
  • Geographic maps
  • Heat maps
  • Tree maps
  • Pie charts and bar charts
  • Dual axis and combined charts with different mark types
  • Highlight Tables
  • Scatter Plots
• Build dashboards to share visualizations.

• Introduction
• Connecting to data
• Simplifying and sorting your data
• Organizing your data
• Slicing your data by date
• Using multiple measures in a view
• Showing the relationship between numerical values
• Mapping data geographically
• Viewing specific values
• Customizing your data
• Analyzing data with quick table calculations
• Showing breakdowns of the whole
• Highlighting data with reference lines
• Making your views available