
Explore Tableau for analytics and business intelligence, from connecting data sources and building views to dashboards, storytelling, and publishing, with hands-on coverage of charts, calculations, and augmented analytics.
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Explore Tableau, a leading visual analytics platform that translates drag-and-drop actions into data queries, enabling easy connection, blending, and visualization of large datasets for interactive, shareable dashboards.
Explore the Tableau product suite, from developer tools like Tableau Desktop, Tableau Prep, and Tableau Public to sharing tools such as Tableau Server, Tableau Online, and Tableau Reader.
Master business intelligence by collecting, integrating, and analyzing data to create dashboards, reports, and visualizations that drive informed decisions in sales, finance, HR, and beyond with Tableau.
Explore Tableau’s intuitive interface, from the start page to data source connections, canvases, and shelves, and learn how to create and navigate workbooks, charts, dashboards, and stories.
Master Tableau concepts by mapping data structure, distinguishing rows and columns, and classifying fields as dimensions or measures. Learn reshaping to tall format and when to use relationships versus joins.
Connect Tableau to flat files, databases, and web data connectors, create quality data sources, and use joins, relationships, and custom SQL to prepare data for visualization.
Explore Tableau data sources: manage connections on the data source page, choose live or extract modes, and use data interpreter, pivot, rename, and aliases to prepare data for visualization.
Explore the Tableau workspace, data pane, and shelves to create visualizations from data sources. Build hierarchies and calculated fields, create maps and heat maps, and format titles, captions, and cards.
Create views in Tableau using four methods—drag fields to shelves, double-click fields, use Show Me, or drop fields on canvas—while mastering marks, discrete vs continuous, and tooltips.
Explore how to blend data from multiple sources in Tableau, using primary and secondary data sources, linking fields, and sheet-by-sheet settings, plus how joins and unions affect aggregation and publishing.
Load the food list Excel into tableau and relate category and timesheet by food ID. Create a horizontal bar chart for course and prep times, plus flavor profile tree map.
Master how to choose the right chart type in Tableau by matching data properties and questions to line, bar, map, and other visualizations to reveal insights.
Learn to visualize change over time with line and area charts in Tableau, including discrete versus continuous dates, blending axes, and stacked charts using sales and profit.
Explore how to create and customize bar charts in Tableau, including vertical and horizontal bars, sorting, stacking, and grouping by flavor profile, with practical steps for cook-time analysis.
Explore part-to-whole data visualization with pie and donut charts, including calculating counts and percentages, labeling, and building dual-axis donut charts in Tableau using a training enrollees dataset.
Learn to create text tables and call out numbers in Tableau using cross tabs, wide and highlight table formats, with best practices for readable fonts, colors, and clear labeling.
Visualize distributions with histograms and box plots in Tableau, using age ranges and salary data from credit card customers. Explore bins and box plots by gender.
Explore how to visualize and quantify relationships with scatter plots and a correlation matrix, using Pearson correlation, trend lines, and p-values in Tableau on the abalone data set.
Learn to create symbol and filled spatial charts in Tableau by assigning geographic roles, plotting longitudes and latitudes, and visualizing data with size, color, and labels across Colorado counties.
Create interactive Tableau dashboards by assembling multiple views—line chart, tree map, and bar chart—into a responsive layout with containers, filters, highlights, and synchronized worksheets.
Create a Tableau data narrative by composing stories from sheets and dashboards using story points and captions to guide stakeholder insights.
Publish and share your Tableau workbooks to reach broader audiences by using Tableau Public, Tableau Server, or Tableau Online, while optimizing performance and managing data sources.
Load a video game sales Excel file into Tableau, then create a stacked area chart of regional yearly sales and a tree map by genre using global sales.
Load the customer Excel file into Tableau and recreate a fixed-size desktop dashboard with three views: pie chart, symbol map, and histogram, using gender, customer number, lat/long, and total purchase.
Learn to apply default and custom aggregations in Tableau, including count, min, max, and count distinct, and to create calculated fields and totals for transaction data.
Explore numeric functions in Tableau to create calculated fields that transform data with absolute value, sign, Zn, ceiling, floor, round, min, and max, using sales and quota examples.
Explore Tableau string functions, including upper and lower, left, right, split, l trim, trim, and replace, to standardize case, extract substrings, trim spaces, and clean text.
Explore Tableau logical functions—if, if else, case when—creating calculated fields like alert and category id to classify stock vs orders and color-code ro level data with oc or needs restock.
Explore Tableau's analytics tools to enhance visuals with subtotals and grand totals, apply forecasting using exponential smoothing models, and perform k-means clustering to reveal data patterns.
Load the mock visitors IP spreadsheet into Tableau, standardize last names to uppercase, trim and format first names, and build a clean text table of names, emails, and address.
Load the woman shopping review CSV into Tableau and build a fixed-size dashboard with a rating callout, a review count, a bar chart by class name, and a division–department–class table.
Conclude your Tableau journey by recognizing its capabilities as a powerful BI data integration and analytics tool, and connect with the instructor for any further questions.
Explore advanced Tableau concepts from parameters and level of detail to geospatial and table calculations, then build animated visualizations and dashboards with circular, sunburst, bumper, funnel, candlestick, and Sankey charts.
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Advance in Tableau from beginner to advanced by mastering advanced calculations, spatial processing, and dashboard techniques, including parameters, sets, filters, animations, and geospatial dashboards.
Use Tableau's parameters to replace constants in calculated fields, drive dynamic filters, and let users control views through the parameter shelf without altering the source data.
Create dynamic date range and measure filters in Tableau using parameters and calculated fields, swapping year, quarter, month, and sales measures in charts and titles.
Master level of detail (LOD) expressions in Tableau to control granularity using fixed, include, and exclude. Apply region, county, and city-level calculations to create dynamic, multi-granularity visuals.
Create groups and sets in Tableau to organize data, manually grouping values and building fixed or dynamic sets, then combine, filter, and compare top and bottom accessories.
Explore Tableau spatial functions to analyze geospatial data, convert coordinates with make point, build routes with make line, and compute distances, buffers, and areas for map visualizations with geographic roles.
Apply spatial functions to create a basic airline route map from San Francisco flights data by generating origin and destination points, and connecting them with a make line.
Create multi-layer geospatial maps in Tableau by combining filled state and country maps with x and y coordinates, color by religion subtype, and build airline routes with origin–destination lines.
Explore Tableau filters from extract to table calculation, learn how each filter type shapes data, implement cascading and context filters, and optimize dashboards with 2019 data and top ten views.
Explore how table calculations transform values in a visualization and differ from calculated fields. Understand addressing, partitioning, and quick table calculations, including percent of total.
Explore table calculations in Tableau by building running totals, running averages, and percent differences across months and years, using invoice date and month dimensions to compare 2020 and 2021.
Explore how to enhance Tableau dashboards with actions that add interactivity, including filter, highlight, and parameter actions, and learn setup, triggers, and effects on multiple views.
Explore how Tableau animations leverage pre attentive motion to reveal data changes, using the page shelf, show history, and styles (simultaneous or sequential) across line, bar, and scatter charts.
Build advanced Tableau charts like circular calendar and sunburst, using parameters depth and distance from center, to analyze 2011 sales by day, month, and category.
Create a Sankey diagram in Tableau mapping product categories to store locations using a toy sales dataset. Apply data densification, padding, and calculated fields to create curved links and highlights.
Explore advanced tableau charts, including bump charts to rank categories over time, funnel charts for stage analyses, and candlestick charts for open-high-low-close price visuals.
Master visual analytics best practices to create purpose-driven charts and dashboards. Start with audience questions, then choose chart types, colors, labels, and layout for clarity and efficiency.
Create a geospatial dashboard in Tableau showing world war two bomb targets with a three-layer map (origin country, bomb path, target points) and add bar and line charts with interactivity.
Build a marketing dashboard in Tableau with histograms, scatterplots, donut, and tree maps to analyze campaigns, channels, and country-level purchases, including dual-axis totals and averages.
Analyze high spenders and an aging demographic to tailor campaigns, using a histogram of age bins, a scatterplot of age and income, and a donut dashboard in Tableau.
Create a Tableau sales dashboard with a radial bar chart using polar coordinates to compare automotive product lines, showing classic cars as top contributors and sales decline since 2015.
Build a top ten horizontal bar chart in Tableau that uses a dynamic parameter to switch the measure between price, orders, and stock, via a calculated bar measure.
Load the London bus route data in Tableau, create origin and destination points, draw routes with make line, and use a set and change set action to filter routes.
Build a Tableau dashboard with an animated bar chart and scatterplot driven by a granularity parameter (subregion or country). Create calculated fields to load measures and assemble year-by-year animation.
Create a 2014 department store dashboard in Tableau featuring a circular calendar, a bump chart, and an area chart, with depth and distance from center parameters and related calculated fields.
Create a sankey diagram from the US energy generation data in Tableau, using unions, calculated fields, table calculations, and highlight actions to compare producers and energy sources.
Explore Tableau, a powerful BI data integration and analytics tool, and reflect on its capabilities as you conclude this journey.
**This course bundle includes downloadable course instructor and exercise files to work with and follow along.**
Conquer Tableau Desktop with this great value 2-course training bundle for beginner to advanced users from Simon Sez IT!
Move at your own pace as you learn how to navigate Tableau, connect to data sources, and create interactive charts and dashboards. We’ll cover everything from understanding business intelligence and basic data concepts to applying your own calculations, expressions, and functions in Tableau.
We will also cover a handful of advanced Tableau topics, starting with a section on parameters and use cases and moving on to Level of Detail (LOD) expressions, spatial functions, advanced filters, and table calculations.
Learn to build sophisticated visualizations and dashboards using Sankey diagrams, geospatial charts, sunburst charts, and circular charts, among others, and even animate your visualizations.
This Tableau bundle is designed for students of all levels and is suitable for those brand new to Tableau or learners transitioning from Excel to Tableau. The advanced section is designed for those who already have a good foundation in Tableau and are seeking to improve their skills.
This is a video-led training course suitable for Windows or Mac users and features Tableau Desktop.
What's included?
Tableau for Beginners
What Tableau is and the product suite
What business intelligence is
The Tableau interface and its major functions
Which data structures are suitable for Tableau
How Tableau reads and categorizes data
Different data concepts and theory
How to connect and manage data sources in Tableau
How to navigate the Tableau workspace
How to build a view and different chart types in Tableau
How to create a dashboard in Tableau
How to publish and share a workbook
How to use calculated fields in Tableau
How to use numeric, string, conditional, and analytical expressions/functions in Tableau
Tableau Advanced
Parameters and sample use cases
Level of Detail (LOD) expressions
Working with groups and sets
Use of spatial functions
Advanced filters
Table calculations
How to add interactivity using actions
Animating your visualizations
Advanced Tableau charts—circular, sunburst, bump, funnel, candlestick, and Sankey charts
Building geospatial dashboards and sales dashboards
Creating dashboards that utilize radial charts.
This course bundle includes:
11+ hours of video tutorials
61 individual video lectures
Course and exercise files to follow along
Certificate of completion