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Tableau Masterclass - solving real world business challenges
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Tableau Masterclass - solving real world business challenges

How to master advanced business intelligence with Tableau. How to become a Tableau expert
Created byDan We
Last updated 10/2023
English
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What you'll learn

  • You can improve strategic decision making and create competitive advantages
  • You can leverage Tableau to solve challenging data analytics questions
  • You improve your data analytics skills
  • You know about common questions and what customers / stakeholders might expect from you during data analytics projects
  • You might open up new career opportunities for you which are not only highly rewarding but also offer more job satisfaction
  • You can generate valuable insights for yourself and your company

Course content

2 sections • 30 lectures • 3h 7m total length

  • Einleitung2:48
  • Download the datasets0:02
  • One important thing before you start0:24
  • Tableau Fixing Formatting Issues6:24

    Learn how to fix date formatting issues in Tableau when incoming data mislabels dates, using a calculated field and string functions to restore correct month and year.

  • Tableau Actual vs Budget Comparison8:15

    Build a Tableau visualization that compares actual, budget, and outlook for 2017 by month. Use a running total, filters, and color palettes to distinguish data types.

  • Tableau Year over Year Comparison7:38

    Learn to create a year-over-year sales comparison in Tableau, displaying actual versus last year by month and running total, with outlook, filters, and color-coding.

  • Tableau Product Launch Comparison Challenge11:37

    Align category sales to a common start by computing the minimum order date per category with a fixed level of detail, then use date_diff and running totals to compare launches.

  • Tableau Dynamic Datefilter Challenge and Solution12:41

    Create a dynamic date filter in tableau. Show year-to-date data for the current year and all data from last year using latest order date LOD and date trunk to year.

  • Tableau Special sorting challenge and solution14:01

    Learn to solve a Tableau sorting challenge by using a calculated field and date trunk on order dates to sort subcategories by the latest sales, delivering dynamic, synchronized time-series visuals.

  • Tableau Parameter and Flexibility11:31

    Explore dynamic Tableau visualizations using parameters to switch between sales and profit and to drill into category or subcategory, powered by calculated fields with case when.

  • Tableau Custom Design Colors2:26

    Learn to create and apply a custom color palette in Tableau by editing the preferences file in the Tableau repository and pasting color codes.

  • Tableau Stacked bar formatting challenge4:39

    Create 1 percent stacked bars in Tableau using percent of total and category coloring. Add totals on top with a dual axis, synchronize axes, and refine labels for clarity.

  • Tableau Analyse Customer Retention6:57

    Analyze customer retention in Tableau by examining order data, calculating the minimum order date per customer with a level of detail expression, and visualizing new versus returning customers across years.

  • Tableau Speedtrick3:01

    Learn how to quickly replace the sales measure with the amount across multiple Tableau worksheets and dashboards, ensuring consistent sums while exploring categories, months, and year filters such as 2016.

  • Tableau Formating Trick1:32

    Learn a Tableau formatting trick to color code categories using a custom color palette. Use shift-click to apply the palette to selected categories while excluding others, such as drinks.

  • Visualizing KPIs in Tableau13:46

    Learn to visualize KPI indicators in Tableau by creating year-based sales measures (2017 vs 2016) with calculated fields and datepart, placing KPI shapes beside bars for quick insights.

  • Tableau Special Sorting Request and Solution6:58

    Create a parameter to designate the most important country and use a calculated field with level of detail expression to place that country on top of sales sort in Tableau.

  • Tableau dynamic dateranges7:06

    Learn to build dynamic date ranges in Tableau with parameters, using calculated fields and date diff against max date to filter the last number of days or months.

  • Tableau Visualization Alternatives - did Sales increase compared to last year10:07

    Explore how to compare sales across two years in Tableau by visualizing subcategory trends, building calculated fields and boolean expressions, and using filters and color to highlight increases and decreases.

Requirements

  • Experience in Data Analytics / Visual Analytics is an advantage
  • Experience with Tableau is definitely helpful
  • Your curiosity and willingness to learn and grow
  • This is not a total beginners course - Together we explore real world business challenges (customer requests) and solutions
  • No additional costs for the software - I use Tableau Public which you can download for free
  • This course does not dive deep into formulas (LODs,...), these are covered in my Tableau Masterclass - Advanced calculations with Tableau course

Description

How to become a Tableau Pro? Master Advanced Tableau in 3 hours.

Learn about complex business challenges and customer demands and how we solved them in a data analytics / visual analytics project.

Business Intelligence / Business Analytics is in high demand. Companies are constantly searching for ways to make better and faster decisions. Therefore they rely heavily on data. Data driven decision making is the key to success for any business in the world of tomorrow.

Because of that companies across industries are constantly desperately searching for skilled employees and freelancers with the necessary capabilities to help with analyzing data and creating valuable highly profitable insights. This will be the key advantage to succeed in business.

A data analyst career is not only higly rewarding but also very interesting.

Tableau is, next to Power BI, one of the two leading data analytics / visual analytics solutions out there. It is state of the art and a powerful tool to explore your data. 


"From my personal experience I can tell you that companies will actively searching for you if you master Tableau. Diving into data & analytics can not only immensly improve your career opportunities but also your job satisfaction!"


Tableau is also a great tool for datascience. A lot of data scientists like to use it for visualizing and presenting the findings. Therefore Tableau can often be a valuable skill for datascience jobs.


What we learn in this course might also help you later with your Tableau certification exam

I have already created Power BI courses which cover the software in detail and help interested students to dive into this career path. Their feedback has encouraged me to offer a deep dive course for tableau as well. The result is this course. You get a visual analytics package where experience from various projects is combined to equip you with the best knowledge to succesfully do data analytics projects.

We will use Tableau Public during this Tableau training course so there is no need to pay upfront for software. We got a lot to do the next 3 hours. So let's get into it!

Who this course is for:

  • You want to become better at your job OR explore a new career opportunity
  • You want to be in high demand (as employee or freelancer)
  • You want to create stunning visualizations to impress management or your coworkers
  • Data analysts or students who want to dive into a data analytics career
  • You who want to see and resolve real world business challenges
  • You are interested in learning about customer requests considering data analytics and visual analytics projects
  • You want to succeed in the working world of tomorrow
  • You want to master self service bi
  • You want to get valuable insights from you data
  • Prepare yourself for the future now

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