TABL_DESK_0L2: Tableau Desktop Level 2

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About this Course

The advent of cloud computing and storage has ushered in the era of big data. With the abundance of computational power and storage, organizations and employees with many different roles and responsibilities can benefit from analyzing data to find timely insights and gain a competitive advantage.

Data-backed visualizations allow anyone to explore, analyze, and report insights and trends from data. Tableau® software is designed for this purpose. Tableau was built to connect to a wide range of data sources, and allows users to quickly create visualizations of connected data to gain insights, show trends, and create reports. Beyond the fundamental capabilities of creating data-driven visualizations, Tableau allows users to manipulate data with calculations to show insights, make visualizations interactive, and perform statistical analysis. This gives users the ability to create and share data-driven insights with peers, executives, and clients.

Audience Profile

This course is designed for professionals in a variety of job roles who are currently using Tableau to perform numerical or general data analysis, visualization, and reporting. They need to provide data visualizations from multiple data sources, or combine data to show comparisons, manipulate data through calculations, create interactive visualizations, or create visualizations that showcase insights from statistical analysis.

This course is also designed for students who plan to obtain Tableau® Desktop Qualified Associate certification, which requires candidates to pass the Desktop Qualified Associate exam.

At Course Completion

In this course, you will perform advanced data visualization and data blending with Tableau. You will:

  • Blend data to visualize relationships.
  • Join data.
  • Access data in PDFs.
  • Refine visualizations with sets and parameters.
  • Manipulate data with calculations.
  • Visualize data with advanced calculations.
  • Perform statistical analysis and forecasting.
  • Enrich visualizations, dashboards, and maps.

This Tableau Desktop 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.

Build a solid foundation in Tableau. This course is for anyone who works with data, regardless of technical or analytical backgrounds. You’ll learn how to navigate the product and examine core concepts and techniques in Tableau. Move from creating visualizations to combining them in interactive dashboards.

Outline

Lesson 1: Blending Data to Visualize Relationships

 Topic A: Blend Data

 Topic B: Troubleshoot and Refine Data Blends

 Lesson 2: Joining Data

 Topic A: Create Joins

 Topic B: Troubleshoot Joins

 Topic C: Merge Data with Unions

 Lesson 3: Accessing Data in PDFs

 Topic A: Connect to PDFs

 Topic B: Clean Up and Organize PDF Data

 Lesson 4: Refining Visualizations with Sets and Parameters

 Topic A: Create Sets

 Topic B: Analyze Data with Sets

 Topic C: Apply Parameters to Data to Refine Visualizations

 Lesson 5: Manipulating Data with Calculations

 Topic A: Create Calculated Fields

 Topic B: Manipulate Data with Functions

 Topic C: Analyze Data with Table Calculations

 Lesson 6: Visualizing Data with Advanced Calculations

 Topic A: Create Groups and Bins with Calculations

 Topic B: Analyze Data with LOD Expressions

 Lesson 7: Performing Statistical Analysis and Forecasting

 Topic A: Perform Statistical Analysis

 Topic B: Forecast Data Trends

 Lesson 8: Enriching Visualizations, Dashboards, and Maps

 Topic A: Customize Mapped Data

 Topic B: Enhance Visualizations with Tooltips

 Topic C: Enhance Dashboards with Actions

Appendix A: Multidimensional Data Sources

Appendix B: Mapping Course Content to the Tableau® Desktop Qualified Associate Certification Objectives

Prerequisites

To ensure your success in this course you should have experience with importing data and creating data visualizations in Tableau.

Optionally, having experience with other data analytics tools, such as Google Analytics™ or customer relationship management (CRM) tools, as well as an understanding of database design concepts or a background in statistical analysis, will help you get even more out of Tableau.