Learn how to use Tableau to create, export, and share data visualizations that can offer you powerful business insights.
Using Tableau to Discover Powerful Business Insights (2021)
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Using Tableau to create business insights
- What is Tableau?
- How can you use Tableau effectively for business?
- Excel vs. Tableau
- What is data visualization?
- Four main functions of Tableau
- Basic Tableau terminology
- Data connection screen
- Types of data to connect to
- Live vs. extracted data sources
- Defining joins, unions, and data blending
- Creating joins, unions, and data blending
- Changing field types
- Creating an alias
- Default formatting
- Case study: Part 1
- Interface overview
- Building visualizations
- Creating calculated fields
- Groups
- Sets
- Table calculations
- Sorting
- Filters
- Histogram and bins
- Analytics pane overview
- Scatter plot and clustering
- Case study: Part 2
- Dashboard interface overview
- Basic dashboarding
- Interactive elements
- Tiled vs. floating objects
- Creating stories
- Case study: Part 3
- Dimension vs. measure
- Discrete vs. continuous
- Aggregation
- Timeliness
- Visual analytics best practices
- Your path forward
- Sharing your Tableau portfolio
- Forums
- YouTube
- Next steps
Taught by
John David Ariansen and Madecraft
