(Online Delivery) Tableau Desktop: Part 1

Overview:

As technology progresses and becomes more interwoven with our businesses and lives, more and more data is collected about business and personal activities. This era of "big data" exploded due to the rise of cloud computing, which provides an abundance of computational power and storage, allowing organizations of all sorts to capture and store data. Leveraging that data effectively can provide timely insights and competitive advantage.

The creation of data-backed visualizations is a key way data scientists, or any professional, can explore, analyze, and report insights and trends from data. Tableau® software is designed for this purpose. Tableau was built to connect to a wide range of data sources and allows users to quickly create visualizations of connected data to gain insights, show trends, and create reports. Tableau's data connection capabilities and visualization features go far beyond those that can be found in spreadsheets, allowing users to create compelling and interactive worksheets, dashboards, and stories that bring data to life and turn data into thoughtful action.

Target Student:

This course is designed for professionals in a variety of job roles who are currently using desktop or web-based data-management tools to perform numerical or general data analysis. This includes capturing and reporting on data to peers, executives, and clients. These professionals must also provide data visualizations in reports or explain data analysis through visualizations.

This course is also designed for students who plan to obtain the Tableau Desktop Specialist certification, which requires candidates to pass the Tableau Desktop Specialist exam, or the Tableau Certified Data Analyst certification, which requires candidates to pass the Tableau Certified Data Analyst exam.

In this course, you will visualize data with Tableau. You will:

• Identify basic Tableau capabilities.
• Connect to and prepare data.
• Explore data with views and visualizations.
• Manage, sort, and group data.
• Save, publish, and share data sources and workbooks.
• Filter data in views.
• Customize visualizations with annotations, highlights, and advanced features.
• Create and enhance dashboards in Tableau.
• Create and enhance stories in Tableau.

Lesson 1: Tableau Fundamentals

Topic A: Overview of Tableau

Topic B: Navigate the Tableau Desktop Interface

Lesson 2: Connecting to and Preparing Data

Topic A: Connect to Data

Topic B: Save Workbook and Extract Files

Topic C: Build a Data Model

Topic D: Prepare Data for Analysis

Lesson 3: Exploring Data with Views and Visualizations

Topic A: Create Views and Visualizations

Topic B: Edit Visualizations to Support Data Analysis

Topic C: Create and Use Hierarchies

Topic D: Perform Table Calculations

Lesson 4: Managing, Sorting, and Grouping Data

Topic A: Manage Fields

Topic B: Sort Data

Topic C: Group Data

Lesson 5: Saving, Publishing, and Sharing Data

Topic A: Save Data Sources

Topic B: Publish Data Sources

Topic C: Share and Publish Workbooks

Lesson 6: Filtering Data

Topic A: Configure Basic Filters

Topic B: Configure Advanced Filter Options

Topic C: Create Interactive Filters

Lesson 7: Customizing Visualizations

Topic A: Format and Annotate Views

Topic B: Emphasize Data in Visualizations

Topic C: Create Animated Workbooks

Topic D: Apply Best Practices for Visual Design

Lesson 8: Creating and Enhancing Dashboards

Topic A: Create Dashboards

Topic B: Enhance Dashboards with Actions

Topic C: Create Mobile Dashboards

Lesson 9: Creating and Enhancing Stories

Topic A: Create Stories

Topic B: Enhance Stories with Tooltips