Tableau Advanced Training Course

Overview

Tableau helps people see and understand data.

Course Outline

Introduction and Getting Started

• Filtering, Sorting & Grouping

  • Advanced options for filtering and hiding

  • Understanding many options for ordering and grouping your data

  • Sort, Groups, Bins, Sets

  • Interrelation between all options

• Working with Data in Tableau

  • Dimension versus Measures

  • Data types, Discrete versus Continous

  • Joining Database sources,

  • Inner, Left, Right join

  • Blending different datasources in a single worksheet

  • Working with extracts instead of live connections

  • Data quality problems

  • Metadata and sharing a connection

• Calculations on Data and Statistics

  • Row-level calculations

  • Aggregate calculations

  • Arithmetic, string, date calculations

  • Custom aggregations and calculated fields

  • Control-flow calculations

  • What is behind the scene

  • Advanced Statistics

  • Working with dates and times

• Table Calculations

  • Quick table calculations

  • Scope and direction

  • Addressing and partitioning

  • Advanced table calculations

• Advanced Geo techniques

  • Building basic maps

  • Geographic fields, map options

  • Customizing a geographic view

  • Web Map Service

  • Visualizing non geographical data with background images

  • Mapping tips

  • Distance Calculations

• Parameters in tableau

  • Creating parameters

  • Parameters in calculated fields

  • Parameter control options

  • Enhancing analysis and visualizations with parameters

• 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

• Advanced formattting

  • Labels

  • Legends

  • Highlighting

  • Annotations

• Telling a data story with Dashboards

  • Dashboard framework

  • Filter actions

  • Highlight actions

  • URL actions

  • Cascading filters

• Trends and Forecasting

  • Understanding and Customizing trend lines

  • Distributions

  • Forecasting

• Integrating Tableau and R for advanced data analytics  

  • Possibility to include different data analytics methods in R on participants request