Tableau fundamentals for beginners - A Tableau crash course

How to learn Tableau for beginners in less than 3 hours. Tableau online training class

Created byDan We

Last updated 8/2023

English

What you'll learn

You know the fundamentals of Tableau
You know whether Tableau is a tool for you
You can work with Tableau
You set the foundation for your data & analytics career
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

1 section • 20 lectures • 2h 43m total length

Tableau Let's get into it!1:55
Download the datasets0:01
One important thing before you start0:24
2 Introduction to Tableau - All about the interface23:10
3 Tableau - First steps to data enlighment17:41
4 Data preparation in action - how to clean your data in Tableau10:08
5 Tableau for beginners - Understanding the data pane22:29
Tableau for beginners - 6 All kinds of Filters in Tableau16:08
Tableau crashcourse for beginners - 7 Working with Dates in Tableau10:08
See the difference between discrete and continuous dates in Tableau. Learn to switch between bar and line charts and explore date hierarchies by year, quarter, and month.
8 Learn Tableau - How to Using several Measures in your visualization5:54
9 Master Tableau - 9 How to - Using several Measures Part 25:19
Tableau for beginners course - 10 Quickly explore the correlations11:21
Learn to build a scatterplot to explore correlations between sales and amount in Tableau, disaggregate data by category and country, color by category, and apply trend lines.
11 Tableau - What does self service BI acutally mean5:18
Tableau enables self-service BI with drag-and-drop of dimensions and measures to create tables, maps, pies, treemaps, and box plots. Use Show Me to preview visuals and learn data structure.
12 Tableau for Excelfriends like myself - Calculations in Tableau14:08
13 Tableau - Where Tableau shines the most - Maps7:04
14 More insights with maps in Tableau3:35
Explore Tableau maps to add measures and visualize data with pie charts across countries, using color, size, and angle via dual axis.
15 Tableau - Data Presentation - What are Dashboards and how to use them7:14
Your input is needed - share your thoughts and ideas0:09
More learning resources0:26
16 End - Log out and final words1:16

Requirements

No additional costs for the software - I use Tableau Public which you can download for free
You need to be curious and willing to explore a new world
Beside this - nothing else is required. This is a crashcourse for total beginners who have never worked with this tool before

Description

You have never used Tableau for Data Analytics / Visual Analytics and Business Intelligence before?

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.

So back to my question at the beginning. You have never used Tableau for Data Analytics / Visual Analytics and Business Intelligence before?

No problem! Let's bring you up to speed in this Tableau training class in less than 3 hours. Welcome to Tableau online training This crashcourse was created to give you a quick and easy way to learn the fundamentals of one of the best self service BI tools today and in the future. (also for setting the foundations for your successful Tableau certification exam preparation)

What is required? Only one thing. You interest and your willingness to learn and grow. The course was designed for students who have never worked with the tool before. We will use Tableau Public which you can download for free so there are no additional costs.

Data is the new Oil and the main competive edge of successful companies. So companies will demand from their employees to work more and more with self service business intelligence tools. This is not only true across departments but also across industries.

You will not only prepare yourself for your future job responsibilities of your current job but already prepare yourself for new opportunities ahead.

"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.

So what are you waiting for?

Together we have got a lot to do the next 3 hours. So let's dive into it!

Who this course is for:

beginners who have never worked with this tool before
students who want to dive into data analytics and visual analytics
You want to prepare for future job resposibilities and new job opportunities
You want to take advantage of the data driven opportunity ahead