Duration: 3 days
Price: $2,100

Familiarize yourself with Tableau Desktop quickly via curated content from Tableau Desktop I: Fundamentals and Tableau Desktop II: Intermediate. In this fast-paced, 3-day instructor-led course, you'll learn both foundational and more advanced Tableau skills. Build a range of visualizations, customize your data to enhance your analysis, and implement interactive features to engage your audience.

When you complete this course, you will be able to:

• Connect to data. 
• Edit a data source. 
• Organize data to analyze content based on custom sorting and filtering. 
• Use the Tableau workspace to create visualizations. 
• Build a range of essential chart types for analysis. 
• Combine data from multiple tables using joins, unions, and relationships. 
• Use extracts to improve performance. 
• Create basic calculations, including quick table calculations. 
• Use advanced and table calculations to modify data for analysis. 
• Apply analytics to views. 
• Use parameters and input controls to support audience analysis. 
• Build advanced chart types, including bar-in-bar and bullet graphs. 
• Construct interactive dashboards to reveal data insights. 
• Design dashboards. 
• Describe how to share and publish visualizations.

Lessons and Topics

Introduction to Tableau

• Meet The Tableau Platform
• Define Application Terminology
• Assess Visual Cues for Fields
• Follow The Tableau Workflow
• List Elements of a Visualization
• Get Started in Tableau

Connection and Data Source Setup

• Access Tableau File Types and Extensions
• Create a Live Data Connection
• Save and Edit a Data Source
• Modify Data Attributes
• Understand Changes to Data

Data Simplification and Sorting

• Filter Data
• Creating Date Filters
• Sort Data
• Nest Sorting and Context Filters

Data Organization

• Use Groups
• Create and Use Hierarchies

Specific Value Access

• Create Crosstabs
• Generate Grand Totals, Subtotals, and Change Aggregation
• Create Highlight Tables

Data by Date

• Work with Dates in Tableau
• Use Discrete Date Parts and Continuous Date Values

Multiple Measures in a View

• Measure Values and Names
• Combine or Share Axis Charts
• Create Dual Axis Charts

The Relationship Between Numerical Values

• Showing Correlations and Outliers with Scatter Plots
• Create a Scatter Plot
• Analyze Using the Highlighter
• Analyze an Outlier Using Explain Data
• Using the Analytics Pane
• Trend Lines and Trend Model
• Reference Lines and Bands

Data Connection Options

• Data Connections Page
• Physical and Logical Layers
• Connecting to Single- and Multi-table Data Sources
• Migrated Data Sources
• The Data Pane User Interface
• View Data
• Joins (Inner, Left and Right, Full Outer)
• Unions
• Merging Fields
• Relationship Levels of Detail
• Setting up a Relationship Between Tables
• Joins vs. Relationships
• Combining Data Decision Tree
• Creating Relationships Between Tables from Different Databases

Data Extracts

• Use Data Extracts
• Configure and Run an Extract
• Compare Logical Tables and Physical Table Extracts

Data Customization

• Use Calculations in Tableau
• Define Calculation Types
• Create and Edit Calculated Fields
• Follow Formula Editor Conventions
• Describe Types of Calculated Fields
• Calculate and Aggregate
• Aggregate Dimensions in Calculations
• Enable String Functions
• Split and Custom Split
• Converyte Dates
• Conduct Join Calculations
• Discover LOD Expressions
• Identify Syntax and Calculation Types

Quick Table Calculations

• Discover Table Calculation Overview
• Use Quick Table Calculations

Breakdowns of the Whole

• Generate Pie Charts and Parts of the Whole
• Create Tree Maps

Advanced Table Calculations

• Follow Tips for Learning Table Calculations
• Assess Levels of Control
• Determine Table Calculation Scope and Direction
• Define Table Calculation Specific Dimensions
• Explore Other Scope and Direction Options
• Null Values in Table Calculations
• Use Rank To Show Biggest to Smallest
• Conduct Table Calculations for Statistical Analysis

Parameters

• Use Parameters
• Define Parameters and Filters
• Apply Parameters with Reference Lines

Measured Comparisons

• Compare Two Measures (Bar in Bar Chart)
• Assess Progress Toward a Goal (Bullet Graph)

Data Subsets

• Use Sets
• Follow Tableau Order of Operations
• Combine Sets
• Discover In and Out Sets

Distribution Views

• Display Bins and Histograms
• Generate Box and Whisker Plots

Dashboards

• Plan Your Dashboard
• Build Your Dashboard
• Add Interactivity with Filters and Actions
• Add Actions to Your Dashboard
• Enable Additional Dashboard Actions
• Complete Set Actions
• Discover Parameter Actions
• Follow Visual Best Practices
• Add Instructions & Annotations
• Explore Tooltips
• Remove Chart Extras
• Publish Your Dashboard Online

This course provides comprehensive Tableau training for business users, analysts, and consultants who thrive in fast-paced classes. If you learn new concepts and acquire new technology skills quickly, Desktop I & II: Accelerated quickly facilitates Tableau competency. This course supports authoring in Tableau Desktop, Tableau Cloud, and Tableau Server.

There are no preparatory requirements.