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Tableau for R Users - Explore Tableau and Embed R Code
Rating: 4.0 out of 5(274 ratings)
2,114 students
Last updated 7/2019
English

What you'll learn

  • identify which Tableau product suits your needs
  • exploring Tableau's data visualization and analytics toolbox
  • shaping and formatting visualizations (color, axes, marks, titles, annotations)
  • fusing data of a single or different sources with techniques like joins, data blending or union
  • understanding Tableau calculation types and aggregations (custom calculations, table calculations, LOD expressions)
  • structuring data within Tableau (hierarchies, filters, creating new data out of existing data)
  • creating dashboards and stories
  • connecting to R / using R from within Tableau
  • R examples (outlier detection, modeling, classification)

Course content

8 sections75 lectures8h 54m total length
  • Introduction2:21
  • Tableau Professional or Tableau Public?3:34
  • Tableau Desktop for Students - Free Version0:22
  • Course Datasets - download the data here3:46
  • Getting Familiar with Tableau File Types8:09
  • Where to Find Help3:30
  • Interface Orientation3:54

Requirements

  • Basic knowledge about data science and data visualization
  • Enthusiasm to learn about advanced visualization tools
  • Tableau 10 or 2018 on your machine (Professional or Public)
  • You should have some R skills (for the R part of the course)

Description

Explore the convincing power of Tableau!

Do you want to create overwhelming plots?

Do you want to show your data crystal clear?

Do you want your data to be understood by everyone?

Do you want a versatile graphics toolbox?

Do you want powerful formatting skills?

Do you want to add R functionality to Tableau?

If you answered YES to some of these questions - this course is for you!

Data is useless if you do not have the right tools to build informative graphs and tables (called views in Tableau). Plots need to be understood easily while being accurate at the same time. We gladly enlarge your data analysis toolbox so that you can thrive in your career.

Tableau is a prime platform for all sorts of data visualization. By adding R analytics power to the software you can tremendously enhance the functionality of Tableau.

In this course you will learn

which Tableau product to choose

how to load/connect to different file types

how to store Tableau work

plotting different types of charts

creating tables

you will learn how to embed R code into Tableau and how to use R calculations in charts

and much more

Once you finish the course, you will be a skilled Tableau data scientist. You will be able to use Tableau to optimally visualize your data. This knowledge can be applied in sales, management, science, finance, online business and much more.

Just take the course and explore the magic of Tableau!

Who this course is for:

  • You should have some R knowledge in order to make full usage of the Tableau/R connection
  • The course is for Tableau beginners and for students looking to get better with Tableau
  • You should take the course if you want to find out which Tableau product might be best suited to you