After doing these courses, I feel confident creating professional visualizations 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.Feels like what you want to learn?
Start Course for FreeWhat you'll learn
- Identify how to build and customize basic visualizations in Tableau
- Identify how to improve Tableau visualizations with trendline, range, smoothing, forecast and formatting
- Determine when to use calculated fields to support analysis within Tableau
- Assess how to create and manage Tableau dashboards and recognize effective approaches for presenting results
- Distinguish between Tableau’s data import and export options and recognize how to manipulate and prepare data within Tableau
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this course
Curriculum
Course outline
1
Getting Started with Tableau
You will get an understanding of Tableau's fundamental concepts and features: how to connect to data sources, use Tableau’s drag-and-drop interface, and create compelling visualizations. You will explore an Airbnb dataset for the city of Amsterdam.
- Introduction50 XP
- What can('t) you do with Tableau?50 XP
- Connecting to data50 XP
- Loading workbooks100 XP
- Loading data100 XP
- Navigating Tableau50 XP
- Dimensions and measures100 XP
- A tour of the interface50 XP
- New York neighborhood prices100 XP
- Segmenting by room type100 XP
- How to create visualizations in Tableau50 XP
- Creating your first visualization100 XP
- Bringing it all together100 XP
2
Building and Customizing Visualizations
Let’s take it up a level and review the core concepts required for analyzing and exploring data in Tableau. You’ll learn how to slice and dice data with filters, create new columns using your own calculated fields, and aggregate dimensions and measures in a view. You will be working with education, social and infrastructure data.
3
Digging Deeper
Dive deeper into analytics by learning how to visualize geographic data and plot data onto a map visualization. You’ll learn how to work with dates in Tableau and explore how the data changes with time. You’ll also learn how to add reference, trend, and forecasting lines to your views. You will do all of this exploring health statistics worldwide.
4
Presenting Your Data
Your data is full of interesting stories and insights still waiting to be told. Learn best practices for formatting and presenting visualisations to tell data-driven stories. Using a new dataset on video game sales you'll be building your first dashboard!
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