The role of a data scientist is to turn raw data into actionable insights. Much of the world's raw data—from electronic medical records to customer transaction histories—lives in organized collections of tables called relational databases. To be an effective data scientist, you must know how to wrangle and extract data from these databases using a language called SQL . This course teaches syntax in SQL shared by many types of databases, such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, and Oracle. This course teaches you everything you need to know to begin working with databases today!

Master the basics of querying tables in relational databases such as MySQL, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL.

Learn the basics of syntax in SQL, how to extract and wrangle data, and use querying tables in relational databases like MySQL, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL.

Introduction to SQL

Tableau is a widely used business intelligence (BI) and analytics software trusted by companies like Amazon, Experian, and Unilever to explore, visualize, and securely share data in the form of Workbooks and Dashboards. With its user-friendly drag-and-drop functionality it can be used by everyone to quickly clean, analyze, and visualize your team’s data.

You’ll learn how to navigate Tableau’s interface and connect and present data using easy-to-understand visualizations. By the end of this training, you’ll have the skills you need to confidently explore Tableau and build impactful data dashboards. Let’s dive in.

Get started with Tableau, a widely used business intelligence (BI) and analytics software to explore, visualize, and securely share data.

Learn to navigate Tableau’s interface, connect and present data, and build easy-to-understand visualizations to build impactful dashboards for business.

Introduction to Tableau

Take your Tableau skills up a notch with advanced analytics and 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. 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. 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.

Take your Tableau skills up a notch with advanced analytics and visualizations.

Analyzing Data in Tableau

Dashboards are a must-have tool in today’s data-driven world. By combining curated data visualizations, dashboards allow users to interpret and ask their own questions of data. By reducing the time to insight and empowering business analysts, dashboards can have a big impact on business performance.

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Tableau's dashboarding abilities are powerful and easy to use. In this course, you'll learn to apply dashboard-composition best practices, add interactive or explanatory elements, and use dashboard actions to make your dashboard interactive. Additionally, you'll learn to modify an existing dashboard layout for mobile devices to share as an image or a PDF. Finally, you'll learn how to share your data story through Tableau's story functionality.

Dashboards are a must-have in a data-driven world. Increase your impact on business performance with Tableau dashboards.

Creating Dashboards in Tableau

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. 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.

Learn to connect Tableau to different data sources and prepare the data for a smooth analysis.

Connecting Data in Tableau

In this track, you’ll learn how to use Tableau—one of the world’s most popular business intelligence tools. Best of all, there’s no prior experience required. With its user-friendly drag-and-drop functionality it can be used by everyone to quickly clean, analyze, and visualize your team’s data. Through hands-on exercises, you'll learn how to organize and analyze data, create presentation-ready visualizations, build insightful dashboards, and apply analytics to worksheets. You’ll then ramp up your skills by learning how to use data connectors to combine and prepare datasets and manage data properties. By the end of the track, you'll be ready to pass Tableau’s Desktop Specialist certification and start applying your Tableau skills for your own analyses.

Gain the essential skills you need to confidently use Tableau and pass the Tableau Desktop Specialist certification. No prior experience required.

Tableau Fundamentals

Now that you've learned the basics of SQL in our <a href="https://learn.datacamp.com/courses/introduction-to-sql">Introduction to SQL</a> course,  it's time to supercharge your queries using joins and relational set theory. In this course, you'll learn all about the power of joining tables while exploring interesting features of countries and their cities throughout the world. You will master inner and outer joins, as well as self joins, semi joins, anti joins and cross joins—fundamental tools in any PostgreSQL wizard's toolbox. Never fear set theory again after learning all about unions, intersections, and except clauses through easy-to-understand diagrams and examples. Lastly, you'll be introduced to the challenging topic of subqueries. You will be able to visually grasp these ideas by using Venn diagrams and other linking illustrations.

Join two or three tables together into one, combine tables using set theory, and work with subqueries in PostgreSQL.

Discover all the fundamental in PostgreSQL, like inner, outer self, semi, anti, and cross joins, as well as unions, intersections, and except clauses.

Joining Data in SQL

Gain a 360° overview of exploring and using Power BI to build impactful reports. In this course, you’ll go from zero to hero as you discover how to use this popular business intelligence platform through hands-on exercises. Before diving into creating visualizations using Power BI's drag-and-drop functionality, you’ll first learn how to confidently load and transform data using Power Query and the importance of data models. You’ll also learn to drill down into reports and make your reports fully interactive. You've got the power!

Gain a 360° overview of how to explore and use Power BI to build impactful reports.

Learn how to use the Power BI platform to load and transform data, create visualzations, run DAX formulas, and create reports through hands-on exercises.

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