Course Code: tbdesktop2
Duration: 14 hours
Prerequisites:

Audience This course is designed to provide you with the skills required to become a Tableau power user. It’s made for the professional who has solid working experience with Tableau and wants to take it to the next level. You should have a deep understanding of all the fundamental concepts of building worksheets and dashboards, but may scratch your head when working with more complex issues.

Duration Two days of in-person training or two and five day options for live virtual training.

Prerequisites Tableau Desktop I: Fundamentals or equivalent experience.

Overview:

Course Includes This course includes a workbook containing key concepts on each topic covered and hands-on activities to reinforce the skills and knowledge attained. It also includes a digital student resources folder containing Tableau workbooks and data sources to support the hands-on activities.

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

• Build more complex chart types and visualizations.

• Build complex calculations to manipulate your data.

• Use statistical techniques to analyze your data.

• Use parameters and input controls to give users control over certain values.

• Implement advanced geographic mapping techniques and use custom images and geocoding to build spatial visualizations of non-geographic data.

• Prep your data for analysis.

• Combine data sources using data blending.

• Combine data from multiple tables in the same data source using joins.

• Make your visualizations perform as well as possible by using the Data Engine, extracts, and efficient connection methods.

• Build better dashboards using techniques for guided analytics, interactive dashboard design, and visual best practices.

• Implement efficiency tips and tricks.

Course Outline:

Introduction

• Creating and connecting to data sources

• Defining subsets of your data

• Using calculations in Tableau

• Advanced table calculations

• Creating and using parameters

• Data extracts

• Comparing measures

• Tableau geocoding

• Viewing distributions

• Statistics and forecasting

• Dashboards and stories.