Build your ultimate AI agent
Course Description
Take your Tableau skills up a notch with advanced analytics and visualizations.
Create detailed visualizations
In this course, you’ll learn how to create detail-rich map visualizations, configure date and time fields to show trends over time, and extend your data using calculated fields.Apply skills with a case study
You’ll also apply your new skills to complete a customer analytics case study. Through hands-on activities, you’ll learn how to create bins, customize filters and interactions, and apply quick table calculations.Become a power user
Finally, you’ll learn power user techniques, including how to slice and dice data and apply dynamic sets and groups—bringing you one step closer to being Tableau Desktop Specialist certification-ready.Feels like what you want to learn?
Start Course for FreeWhat you'll learn
- Analyze and visualize time-based data effectively.
- Apply calculated fields and logical functions to derive new insights.
- Create and manage dynamic data groupings and user interactivity.
- Design and enhance dashboards for insight communication.
- Prepare and organize data fields for effective analysis in Tableau.
Prerequisites
Curriculum
Course outline
1
Preparing for Analysis
Learn best practices for organizing fields into dimensions and measures and how to configure date and time fields for trend analysis. All the while, you’ll use Calculated Fields, quick table calculations, and highlight actions to elevate your visualizations and reveal the hidden insights.
- Data preparation50 XP
- Non-aggregating numerical dimensions50 XP
- Preparing the data50 XP
- Measures and calculated fields100 XP
- Highlighter100 XP
- Calculated Fields to extend data50 XP
- DATEDIFF function100 XP
- Weekday or weekend?100 XP
- Highlighter for multiple rows100 XP
- Visualizations for exploratory analysis of trends50 XP
- Discrete or continuous time analysis?100 XP
- Discrete time analysis and Quick Table Calculations50 XP
- Low usage trends100 XP
- Weekly pattern by user type100 XP
- Slicing and dicing50 XP
- Weekday trends by gender and time of day100 XP
- Bubble chart100 XP
- Scheduling a promotional discount100 XP
2
Exploring Visualizations
In this chapter, you’ll get to know more about Divvy users. Learning about them provides valuable information toward successful and continued engagement. To do this, you’ll build bar charts, KPI charts, and histograms with variable bin width. You’ll create additional insights by adding filters to your visualizations.
3
Mapping Analysis
Dive deeper into maps and elevate geographic data with layers and density. You'll customize Tooltips and learn how to embed them with more information. You'll also learn more about Quick Table Calculations and apply them to your visualizations.
4
Groups, Sets, and Parameters
Expand your Tableau toolbox with groups, sets, and parameters. You'll create groups using Lasso selection and Calculated Fields. You'll also use Parameters to enable users to dynamically input changes to your visualizations. Finally, you'll create Sets and compare your findings to an external weather data source.
Analyzing Data in Tableau
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