Data Visualization using Tableau Course

Introduction

Learn the fundamentals of data visualization and practice communicating with data. If you, present data to others, aspire to be a business analyst or data scientist, or if you’d like to become more effective with visualization tools, then you can grow your skills with this course. The Tableau course teaches you how to build visualizations, organize data, and design charts and dashboards to empower more meaningful business decisions. You’ll be exposed to the concepts of Data Visualization, different combo charts, and stories, working with filters, parameters, and sets, and building interactive dashboards. This course is part of both the Business Analyst and Data Analyst.

The training puts emphasis on business intelligence (BI) essentials that are visualization, reporting, and other BI tools that are globally used. It also focuses on enhancing visualization building, analytics, and dashboards.

Learning objectives

• Become an expert on visualization techniques such as heat map, treemap, waterfall, Pareto Understand metadata and its usage
• Work with Filter, Parameters, and Sets
• Master special field types and Tableau-generated fields and the process of creating and using parameters
• Learn how to build charts, interactive dashboards, story interfaces, and how to share your work
• Master the concepts of data blending, create data extracts and organize and format data
• Master arithmetic, logical, table, and LOD calculations

Course duration

5 days

Course outline

Data Preparation using Tableau Prep

• Data Visualization
• Business Intelligence tools
• Introduction to Tableau
• Tableau Architecture
• Tableau Server Architecture

Data Connection with Tableau Desktop

• Features of Tableau Desktop
• Connect to data from File and Database
• Types of Connections
• Joins and Unions
• Data Blending
• Tableau Desktop User Interface
• Basic project: Create a workbook and publish it on Tableau Online

Basic Visual Analytics

• Basic Charts: Bar Chart, Line Chart, and Pie Chart
• Hierarchies
• Data Granularity
• Highlighting
• Sorting
• Filtering
• Grouping
• Sets

Calculations in Tableau

• Types of Calculations
• Built-in Functions (Number, String, Date, Logical and Aggregate)
• Operators and Syntax Conventions
• Table Calculations
• Level of Detail (LOD) Calculations
  

Advanced Visual Analytics

• Parameters
• Tool tips
• Trend lines
• Reference lines
• Forecasting
• Clustering

Geographic Visualizations in Tableau

• Introduction to Geographic Visualizations
• Manually assigning Geographical Locations
• Types of Maps
• Spatial Files
• Custom Geocoding
• Polygon Maps
• Web Map Services

Advanced Charts in Tableau

• Box and Whisker’s Plot
• Bullet Chart
• Bar in Bar Chart
• Gantt Chart
• Waterfall Chart
• Pareto Chart
• Control Chart
• Funnel Chart
• Bump Chart
• Step and Jump Lines
• Word Cloud
• Donut Chart

Dashboards and Stories

• Introduction to Dashboards
• The Dashboard Interface
• Dashboard Objects
• Building a Dashboard
• Dashboard Layouts and Formatting
• Interactive Dashboards with actions
• Designing Dashboards for devices

Exploring Tableau Online

• Publishing Workbooks to Tableau Online
• Interacting with Content on Tableau Online
• Data Management through Tableau Catalogue
• AI-Powered features in Tableau Online (Ask Data and Explain Data)
• Understand Scheduling
• Managing Permissions on Tableau Online
• Data Security with Filters in Tableau Online

Training Approach

This course will be delivered by our skilled trainers who have vast knowledge and experience as expert professionals in the fields. The course is taught in English and through a mix of theory, practical activities, group discussion and case studies. Course manuals and additional training materials will be provided to the participants upon completion of the training.

Tailor-Made Course

This course can also be tailor-made to meet organization requirement. 

Training Venue 

The training will be held at our Upskill Training Centre. We also offer training for a group at requested location all over the world. The course fee covers the course tuition, training materials, two break refreshments, and buffet lunch.

Visa application, travel expenses, airport transfers, dinners, accommodation, insurance, and other personal expenses are catered by the participant

Certification

Participants will be issued with Upskill certificate upon completion of this course.