Tableau for Beginners - Getting Started in Tableau

Choose the right chart type in Tableau by understanding data properties and the questions you ask, then present insights with line, bar, pie, map, and distribution charts.

Learn to visualize change over time with line and area charts in Tableau, exploring discrete versus continuous date fields, drilling down by year and quarter, and blending or stacking measures.

Explore how to create bar charts in Tableau, from vertical and horizontal bars to stacked and grouped visuals, using cook time, course, and flavor profile for clear rankings.

Learn to visualize part-to-whole relationships in Tableau with pie and doughnut charts, converting enrollee ID to a measure and using count distinct and percentage of total labels.

Design callout numbers and tables in Tableau to present exact figures from retail data, building text tables and highlight tables with measures like 2011 sales and orders.

Visualize distribution with histograms and box plots in Tableau, including creating bins, interpreting age ranges, and comparing salaries by gender.

Learn to analyze relationships with scatterplots and correlation matrices in Tableau, using Pearson correlation and trend lines to reveal positive or negative associations among attributes such as length and rings.

Explore spatial charts in Tableau, creating symbol and field maps with geographic fields, using color, size, and labels to visualize sales and customers by region.

Assemble a dashboard from multiple views, including a line chart, tree map, bar chart and callouts, then use layout containers and filters to enable interactivity.

Learn to present data stories in Tableau by building a sequence of story points from multiple visualizations. Tell a marketing and customer value narrative with clear flow.

Publish your workbook in Tableau public to share data analysis and collaborate, enabling others to view, interact, and download the workbook in a browser or mobile app.

Load the video game sales Excel file into Tableau, build a stacked area chart of regional sales from 1980 to 2017, and then create a genre-based tree map.

Load the customer Excel file into Tableau and build a fixed-size desktop dashboard with a symbol map using lat/long, a 500-bin total purchase histogram, and a gender pie chart.

Explore how to use default and custom aggregations in Tableau, transform text and numeric fields with calculated fields, basic calculations, and level of detail expressions to compute totals per transaction.

Explore numeric functions, including absolute value, sign, Zen, ceiling, floor, round, min, and max, and apply calculated fields to transform and analyze data in Tableau.

Explore basic string expressions in Tableau, including upper and lower case, left and right substrings, split, trim, length, contains, find, and replace to clean and format text data.

Master Tableau's conditional expressions, including if, if else, and case when, to build calculated fields like alert for stock versus orders and classify products for restock decisions.

Learn to use Tableau's analytics pane to add subtotals, column and row grand totals, and forecasting with exponential smoothing, trend, seasonality, and prediction intervals, plus basic clustering with k-means.

Load the mock visitors IP spreadsheet into tableau, clean fields with string functions (upper, lower, trim, split), and build a text table view of standardized names, emails, and addresses.

Load woman shopping review data into Tableau, create callouts showing the average rating rounded to one decimal, then assemble a fixed-size dashboard with a table of divisions, departments, and classes.

Discover Tableau as an impressive data integration and analytics tool, and leave this beginner course ready to explore more in the coming years. Reach out with any questions.