In this Tableau Visual Analytics course, you will learn to empower your organisation by utilising self-service BI platforms to work with data analytics and gain access to critical business information.
Tableau Visual Analytics Delivery Methods
Tableau Visual Analytics Course Benefits
Create interactive visualisations to deliver business insights
Extract business intelligence by adding value to your data
Integrate data from multiple heterogeneous sources
Generate Tableau maps for geographical dataShare a story using dashboards to highlight your discoveries
Learn to develop visualisations from data models that use real-time data
Build and publish interactive dashboards
Gain exposure to a broad range of data sources, including big data frameworks
Continue learning and face new challenges with after-course one-on-one instructor coaching
Tableau Visual Analytics Course Outline
Employing visual analysis and analytics
- Appreciating the impact of Big Data on visualisation
- Handling large volumes of data
- Presenting visualisations to analysts and business users
Exploring Tableau
- Utilising the Tableau interface components
- Distinguishing measures and dimensions
- Generating basic visualisations
Accessing a single data source
- Extracting data from Excel and text files
- Pulling data from Microsoft Access
Working with marks and views
- Applying different Views for finding value
- Categorising data with Marks
Graphing data
- Constructing a histogram
- Filtering to reduce the volume of data
- Sorting to impose order
- Organising data by grouping
Modifying the Tableau data schema
- Declaring data types
- Aliasing column headings
- Resolving issues with the Data Interpreter
- Contrasting live connections versus extracts
Importing from multiple data sources
- Reading Excel and text files
- Integrating a Microsoft Access table
- Executing a database join
Connecting to an enterprise database
- Selecting data from a relational database
- Consuming data from a big data framework
Combining data with joins and blends
- Joining heterogeneous tables
- Integrating sources by blending data
Leveraging visualisation techniques
- Generating Crosstabs and Pivot Tables
- Establishing hierarchies and drilling down
- Defining sets and subsets
- Dividing the view into pages
Applying parameters
- Slicing a view with filers
- Specifying data with a selector
Charting with advanced features
- Reviewing available chart templates
- Employing combination charts
- Exploiting trends and moving averages
Calculated fields
- Formulating a calculation to enhance data
- Identifying calculation types
Table calculations
- Implementing quick table calculations
- Editing table calculations for a refined data view
- Creating a level of detail calculations
Mapping geographic data
- Plotting latitude and longitude
- Adding points manually
Surveying map types
- Categorising with the symbol map and filled map
- Customising regions with polygon maps
Authoring dashboards
- Assembling dashboards from views
- Linking the views for interaction
Narrating a story
- Illustrating discoveries with a story
- Capturing story points within the dashboards
- Sharing your workbook
- Publishing to the cloud
- Deploying your workbook to Tableau Server
- Administering the server
