Introduction to Tableau
Teaching you how to tell compelling stories with data by building accessible visualization and dashboards. With these skills, you will be able to present complicated results in a comprehensive way to non-technical audiences.
with Ned Krastev
Start courseCourse Overview
Tableau is now one of the most popular business intelligence tools in the world. It allows non-technical users to visualize data and work with it immediately. This course shows how you can use Tableau to create state-of-the-art visualizations and powerful dashboards, which is precisely what corporate executives need when making decisions.
Skills you will gain
What You'll Learn
With Tableau, you can create powerful visualizations and dashboards from the data you’re working with, which is a valuable skill in the workplace. Our introductory course is here to teach you how to do just that!
Curriculum
- Introduction to Tableau Free7 Lessons 25 Min
While Tableau is an indispensable tool in the arsenal of most corporate business intelligence analysts, data analysts, and data scientists, many people are uncertain about the difference between Tableau and spreadsheet tools like Excel. In this part of the course, you will learn when and why you need Tableau, as well as the difference between Tableau and other spreadsheet tools. We will also get you started by showing you how to install Tableau Public (Tableau’s free version).
Welcome to Tableau Free Why use Tableau: Make your data make an impact Free Let's download Tableau Public Free Connecting data in Tableau Free Exploring Tableau's interface Free Exploring Tableau's interface Free Let's create our first chart in Tableau! Free - Tableau Functionalities13 Lessons 26 Min
In this section, you will create your first Tableau charts and tables. We will teach you how to create basic charts and adjust parts of their appearance. By the end of this section, you will be able to use many of Tableau's core functionalities, like creating custom fields, adding calculations to a table, adding totals and subtotals, and adding a filter.
Duplicating a sheet Free Creating a table Free Creating a table - link Free Creating custom fields Free Creating a custom field and adding calculations to a table Free Creating a custom field and adding calculations to a table - link Free Adding totals and subtotals Adding totals and subtotals - link Adding a custom calculation Adding a custom calculation - link Inserting a filter Inserting a filter - link Working with joins in Tableau - The Tableau Exercise20 Lessons 44 Min
This section is a practical example that will help you apply your skills in practice with real data. The exercise is divided into two parts. In the first part, we will test several ways to connect our data. You already studied joins in SQL. Here, you will see how to apply joins in a Tableau context. You will also learn about data blending, and current best practices. By the end of the exercise, you will create three charts. Each of these charts analyzes a different aspect of a real-life dataset. We will group the charts in a dashboard and add a filter, applying it to all three charts at the same time.
Introduction to the exercise Let's create a dashboard - Visualizing the three charts we want to create Using Joins in Tableau Performing a Numbers Check - Attempt #1 Performing a Numbers Check - Attempt #1 - link Blending Data in Tableau Blending Data in Tableau - link Performing a Numbers Check - Attempt #2 Performing a Numbers Check - Attempt #2 - link First chart First chart - link Second chart Second chart - link Third Chart Third Chart - link Creating and Formatting a Dashboard Creating and Formatting a Dashboard - link Adding Interactive Filters for Improved Analysis Adding Interactive Filters for Improved Analysis - link Interactive filters - fix
“Data scientists don’t just need to deal with data and solve data driven problems. They also need to convince company executives of the right decisions to make. That’s where Tableau comes in – and we will help you become an expert story teller using the leading visualisation software in business intelligence and data science.”
Ned Krastev
CEO at 365 Data Science
Introduction to Tableau
with Ned Krastev