Tableau Beyond the Basics: Growing Your Analytics and Business Intelligence Toolkit

Course details

When it comes to business intelligence tools, Tableau is a market leader that offers data professionals the tools they need to review, assess, and communicate data quickly and effectively. However, learning how to unlock the power of Tableau to become an expert analyst can seem daunting at the outset. In this course, instructor George Lynch provides use hands-on exercises to get you over the initial hump and on your way to having a robust toolkit to analyze and communicate data with Tableau. Practice parameterizing graphics, applying and combining functions, overlaying multiple data sources, using advanced analytics, and much more to produce complex and engaging visuals from distributions to maps. Join George as he teaches you how to effectively use Tableau to help your team and clients meet business objectives and solve problems and continue on your path of becoming a Tableau expert.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Grow your data analytics toolkit in Tableau
02 - What skill level is required

1. Benchmarking with Distributions and Overlays

03 - Use a scatter plot to visualize a distribution
04 - Highlight dimensions values and use Pages
05 - Parameterize data selections
06 - Use the Analytics pane
07 - Pivot processing and plotting aggregated data
08 - Overlay scatter plots from multiple data sources
09 - Challenge - Use advanced analytics
10 - Solution - Use advanced analytics

2. Customized Calculations and Formatting to Enhance Your Viz

11 - Make a waterfall chart and add subgroup calculations
12 - Combine dual-axis functionality and LOD calculations
13 - Challenge - Make your own dual-axis chart with an LOD calculation
14 - Solution - Make your own dual-axis chart with an LOD calculation

3. Doing More with Dates and Parameters

15 - Dynamic calculations using date parameters
16 - Use DATEDIFF to operate multiple calculations from the same parameter
17 - Synchronize time axes using DATEADD
18 - Parameterize the date interval on an axis using DATETRUNC
19 - Use string parameters to communicate the methodology of a calculation
20 - Challenge - Adjust parameters
21 - Solution - Adjust parameters

4. Grow Your Map-Making Toolkit

22 - Use Mark Layers to create maps from multiple data sources
23 - Add custom shapes and explore Marks Layers options
24 - Create custom geographic layers
25 - Control background map layers
26 - Add calculations to customized geographic layers
27 - Change the geography used for marks layer calculation
28 - Maps on dashboards as user-controlled filters for analytics
29 - Challenge - Create a pie chart analysis on a map
30 - Solution - Create a pie chart analysis on a map

Conclusion

31 - Continue your Tableau journey

Tableau Beyond the Basics: Growing Your Analytics and Business Intelligence Toolkit

Authors

George Lynch