TTDTAB007: Tableau Desktop II (Intermediate Tableau Desktop)
About this Course
Geared for experienced Tableau, Tableau Desktop II / Intermediate Tableau Desktop is a two-day, lab intensive hands-on course that provides participants with the intermediate and beyond level skills required to develop complex visualizations, and to combine them in more advanced-level interactive dashboards. Although the base list of topics is similar to the Tableau Desktop course, the Intermediate course will dive deeper into the advanced skills within each topic and visualization to provide you with the skills required for advanced level work. This course is not for beginners or those new to Tableau.
NOTE: The Tableau Training Series is independent-format training that can be tuned and adjusted to best meet your needs. Our materials are flexible, comprehensive, and are always instructed by a senior instructor with a deep understanding of Tableau and its most current features, benefits and functionality in a wide array of uses. This is not Official Tableau Training.
Audience Profile
This is an intermediate-and beyond level course for experienced Tableau Desktop users.
At Course Completion
This skills-focused course combines expert lecture, real-world demonstrations and group discussions with machine-based practical labs and exercises. Working in a hands-on learning environment led by our expert facilitator, students will:
· Use next-level features within the Tableau interface / paradigm to effectively create powerful, advanced level visualizations
· Create advanced calculations including string manipulation, basic arithmetic calculations, custom aggregations and ratios, date math, logic statements and quick table calculations
· Use groups, bins, hierarchies, sorts, sets, and filters to create focused, effective and advanced -level visualizations
· Use Measure Name and Measure Value fields to create visualizations with multiple measures and dimensions.
· Share visualizations with others, combining visualizations into Interactive Dashboards and publish them to the web.
· Represent data using the more following visualization types (emphasizing advanced skill areas only):
· Cross tabs; Heat maps; Distribution charts; Tree maps; Pie charts and bar charts; Dual axis and combo charts with different mark types; Box plots; Highlight tables; Scatter plots
Outline
1. Simplifying and Sorting Your Data
· Data Filtering
· Creating Date Filters
· Sorting
2. Organizing Your Data
· • Using Groups
· • Creating and Using Hierarchies
3. Slicing Your Data by Date
· Working with Dates in Tableau
· Using Discrete Date Parts
· Defining a Fiscal Year
· Creating Custom Dates
4. Using Multiple Measures in a View
· Using Measure Values and Measure Names in a View
· Combo Charts
· Combined or Shared Axis Charts
· Creating Dual Axis Charts
5. Showing the Relationship between Numerical Values
· Creating Scatter Plots
· Using Sets
6. Viewing Specific Values
· Creating Heat Maps
· Creating Crosstabs
· Creating Highlight Tables
· Grand Totals, Sub-Totals, and Changing Aggregation
7. Customizing Your Data
· Calculation Types
· Parts of a Calculated Field
· Options for Creating Calculated Fields
· Strings, Dates, and Type Conversion Functions
· Calculations and Aggregations
8. Analyzing Data with Quick Table Calculations
· Using Quick Table Calculations
9. Showing Breakdowns of the Whole
· Pie Charts and Parts of the Whole
· Creating Tree Maps
10. Viewing Distributions
· Bins and Histograms
· Box and Whisker Plots
11. Making Your Views Available
· Building Dashboards
· Dashboard Actions
Prerequisites
This is an Intermediate and beyond-level Tableau course geared for experienced Tableau users who wish to leverage Tableau’s more advanced capabilities.
Take Before: Attending students should have skills equivalent to or should have recently attended one of these courses:
· TTDTAB004 Introduction to Tableau Desktop and Data Visualization (3 days)
· TTDTAB006 Tableau Desktop Fundamentals (2 days)