Tableau Desktop: Advanced Course
Course Details:
Length: 2 days
Price: $1,240/person (USD)
Group Price: Request Quote
Course Features:
Live Instructor Teaching
Certificate of Completion
Courseware: Print
Hands-On Learning?: Yes
Software Lab Included?: Yes
Delivery Methods:
Individuals and Groups
@ Your Location or Our Labs
Group Teams
@ Your Organization
This is an instructor-led course. It is taught by an instructor
live online or at organizations for groups.
For
team training, we can teach onsite at your office or private live online.
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Course Overview
Master the intricacies of Tableau to create effective data visualizations. Tableau has emerged as one of the most popular Business Intelligence solutions in recent times, thanks to its powerful and interactive data visualization capabilities. This course will empower you to become a master in Tableau by exploiting the many new features introduced in Tableau 10.0.
You will embark on this exciting journey by getting to know the valuable methods of utilizing advanced calculations to solve complex problems. These techniques include creative use of different types of calculations such as row-level, aggregate-level, and more. You will discover how almost any data visualization challenge can be met in Tableau by getting a proper understanding of the tool’s inner workings and creatively exploring possibilities.
You’ll be armed with an arsenal of advanced chart types and techniques to enable you to efficiently and engagingly present information to a variety of audiences through the use of clear, efficient, and engaging dashboards. Explanations and examples of efficient and inefficient visualization techniques, well-designed and poorly designed dashboards, and compromise options when Tableau consumers will not embrace data visualization will build on your understanding of Tableau and how to use it efficiently.
By the end of this course, you will be equipped with all the information you need to create effective dashboards and data visualization solutions using Tableau.
Learning Objectives
- Create a worksheet that can display the current balance for any given period in time
- Recreate a star schema from in a data warehouse in Tableau
- Combine level of detail calculations with table calculations, sets, and parameters
- Create custom polygons to build filled maps for area codes in the USA
- Visualize data using a set of analytical and advanced charting techniques
- Know when to use Tableau instead of PowerPoint
- Build a dashboard and export it to PowerPoint
Register Early: Registration Deadline is 2 Weeks Prior to Class Start.
Course Notes
Knowledge Prerequisites
Tableau Desktop: Basic
Suggested Follow-Ons
Tableau Desktop: Business Intelligence
Related Certifications
Tableau Desktop: Qualified Associate Certification
Certification Notes: Certification exams are administered by third party testing companies. Our courses prepare you for the certification exam, which is an additional fee paid to the testing provider. You must contact the corresponding testing provider to take a certification exam.
Course Topics
1: GETTING UP TO SPEED – A REVIEW OF THE BASICS
The Tableau universe
Understanding the Tableau interface and basic terminology
Worksheet and dashboard creation
Connecting Tableau to your data
Measure Names and Measure Values
Three essential Tableau concepts
Summary
2: ALL ABOUT DATA – GETTING YOUR DATA READY
Understanding Tableau's data-handling engine
Data-mining and knowledge-discovery process models
CRISP-DM
Focusing on data preparation
Summary
3: ALL ABOUT DATA – JOINS, BLENDS, AND DATA STRUCTURES
About joins
Complex joins
Data blending
Data structures
Summary
4: ALL ABOUT DATA – DATA DENSIFICATION, CUBES, AND BIG DATA
About data densification
Working with cubes
Tableau and big data
Summary
5: TABLE CALCULATIONS
A definition and two questions
What is the function?
How is the function applied?
Summary
6: LEVEL OF DETAIL CALCULATIONS
Building playgrounds
Practical application
Summary
7: BEYOND THE BASIC CHART TYPES
Improving popular visualizations
Custom background images
Summary
8: MAPPING
Extending Tableau mapping capabilities without leaving Tableau
Extending Tableau mapping with other technology
Summary
9: TABLEAU FOR PRESENTATIONS
Getting the best images out of Tableau
From Tableau to PowerPoint
Embedding Tableau in PowerPoint
Animating Tableau
Story Points dashboards for presentations
Summary
10: VISUALIZATION BEST PRACTICES AND DASHBOARD DESIGN
Visualization design theory
Dashboard design
Sheet selection
Summary
11: IMPROVING PERFORMANCE
Understand the Performance Recording dashboard
Hardware and on-the-fly techniques
Single Data Source > Joining > Blending
Working efficiently with data sources
Intelligent extracts
Using filters wisely
Efficient calculations
Additional performance considerations
Summary
12: INTERACTING WITH TABLEAU SERVER
Tableau file types
Tableau Server architecture
Tableau Server revision history
Tableau Server web authoring environment
User filters
Accessing the Tableau Server Performance Recording dashboard
Summary
13: R INTEGRATION
Architecture, installation, and integration
Using R functions
Troubleshooting
Summary