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Introduction to Tableau

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Updated 06/2025

Start your Tableau journey with our Introduction to Tableau course. Discover Tableau basics such as its features and dashboards.

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Course Description

Gain a Comprehensive Introduction to Tableau

Tableau is a widely used BI and analytics software trusted by companies like Amazon and Unilever to explore, create, and securely share contextualized data. In this course, you will learn how to build data visualizations, conduct data analyses and adopt best practices of data formatting with Tableau.

Discover what Tableau is Used for and How to Visualize Data

With its user-friendly drag-and-drop functionality, Tableau can be used by everyone to quickly clean, analyze, and visualize your team’s data. This course can show you how. You’ll begin the course by understanding Tableau’s fundamental concepts and features, such as how to load data and workbooks and understanding the interface. You will then create your first visualization with Tableau using an Airbnb dataset.

Build your Own Tableau Dashboard

The final chapters explore best practices for formatting and presenting your data with Tableau, including creating a dual-axis graph, understanding the differences between a worksheet, dashboard, and story, and finally, creating your very first Tableau dashboard. By the end of this course, you’ll have the skills you need to confidently explore Tableau and build impactful data dashboards. Check out our Tableau Fundamentals track to further develop your Tableau skills.

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1

Getting Started with Tableau

Introduction

What can('t) you do with Tableau?

Connecting to data

Loading workbooks

Loading data

Navigating Tableau

Dimensions and measures

A tour of the interface

New York neighborhood prices

Segmenting by room type

How to create visualizations in Tableau

Creating your first visualization

Bringing it all together

2

Building and Customizing Visualizations

3

Digging Deeper

Mapping your data

Geocoding in Tableau

Creating a symbol map

Your first symbol map

More symbol map options

World population

Working with dates

Date hierarchies

Visualizing dates

Your data by year

Your data by month

Birth seasonality

Reference lines, trend lines, and forecasting

Know your lines

Adding reference lines, trend lines, and forecasting

Reference lines

Trend lines

Forecasting

Natality forecast

4

Presenting Your Data

Make your data visually appealing

The art of formatting

Applying visual best practices

Create a dual-axis graph

Expanding a dual-axis graph

Formatting your visualization

Dashboards and stories

Worksheet vs. dashboard vs. story

Creating dashboards and stories

Building a dashboard

Filters and dashboards

Creating and navigating a story

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