After doing these courses, I feel confident creating professional visualizations and dashboards
Shoebur RahmanProcurement Specialist, Giz Bangladesh
Course Description
Great Analysis begins with Great Data
But how do you connect Tableau to your databases and other file types, so that you can build a view and analyze your data? In this course, you'll learn how to use connectors in Tableau to create a live connection to CSV and Excel files.Combine Multiple Data Sources
Through hands-on exercises, you’ll also learn how to combine multiple data tables with joins, unions, and relationships.Finally, you'll learn to manage different data properties, like renaming data fields, assigning aliases, changing data types, and changing default properties for a data field.
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Curriculum
Course outline
1
Combining and Saving Data
In this chapter, you'll learn how to combine data from different sources using joins, unions, and relationships. You'll also discover the difference between extracts and live connections. Finally, you'll learn how to save your work in Tableau.
- Combining data tables50 XP
- Joins and unions100 XP
- Unioning tables50 XP
- Combining time data100 XP
- Editing the union100 XP
- Joining tables50 XP
- Returned orders100 XP
- Sales representatives100 XP
- Relationships50 XP
- Functionality of relationships50 XP
- Establishing a relationship50 XP
- Relationship to manufacturers100 XP
- Worst products100 XP
- Extracts50 XP
- Creating extracts50 XP
- Tableau file types100 XP
- Extract or live connection100 XP
2
Managing and Connecting Data
Learn to manage data properties by renaming columns, assigning aliases and geographic roles, changing data types, and leveraging default properties. On top of that, you'll discover the different data connectors and filter types.
Connecting Data in Tableau
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