Introduction to Tableau

Part Of The On-Demand Courses

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

How to write queries that involve multiple tables and summary queries
How to modify data and understand the logical programming aspects of T-SQL

This course includes:

Course Description
Outline
Instructor
System Requirements
What to Know Before Class

Course Description

The Introduction to Tableau course teaches you the fundamentals of Tableau and is helpful for anyone who works with data no matter their technical background. You’ll come out of the course with an understanding of Tableau terminology, be able to create visualizations, and build dashboards.

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Outline

Module 01 | Introduction to Tableau

29m 48s total

Module 01A | Course Overview

03m 28s

Module 01B | What is Visual Analytics, Business Intelligence and Tableau

14m 17s

Module 01C | The Tableau Products

12m 03s

Module 02 | Building Your First Visualizations

62m 24s total

Module 02A | Tableau Start Window

08m 04s

Module 02B | Connecting to Data

02m 36s

Module 02C | Building the Bar Chart

12m 07s

Module 02D | Building the Map

17m 46s

Module 02E | Building the Dashboard

22m 31s

Module 03 | Fundamentals

93m 92s total

Module 03A | Tableau User Interface Components

16m 11s

Module 03B | Metadata and Data Types

13m 05s

Module 03C | Manually Building Views – Bar Charts

31m 24s

Module 03D | Manually Building Views – Text Tables

15m 27s

Module 03E | Manually Building Views – Lines and Mark Labels

18m 25s

Module 04 | Fundamentals

131m 56s total

Module 04A | The Four Pill Types

23m 22s

Module 04B | Continuous Dimensions and Discrete Measures

21m 43s

Module 04C | Introduction to Dates

11m 17s

Module 04D | Blue Dates and Green Dates

08m 52s

Module 04E | Date Parts and Date Values

08m 15s

Module 04F | Custom Dates and Defaults

06m 13s

Module 04G | Manually Building Views – Scatterplots

15m 30s

Module 04H | Understanding the Viz Level of Detail (VizLOD)

08m 11s

Module 04I | Grain of Data vs. vizLOD

29m 53s

Module 05 | Many Chart Types

91m 27s total

Module 05A | Strip Plot and Box Plots

17m 21s

Module 05B | Symbol & Filled Maps

18m 03s

Module 05C | Map Interactivity and Map Layers

10m 56s

Module 05D | Plotting the Marks

12m 43s

Module 05E | Bullet Graphs

10m 27s

Module 05F | Heatmaps

05m 50s

Module 05G | Highlight Tables

06m 02s

Module 05H | Small Multiple Views

11m 25s

Module 06 | Multiple Axis Charts and the Visual Interpreter

117m 48s total

Module 06A | Dual Axis Charts – Maps

17m 51s

Module 06B | Dual Axis Charts – Individual and Group Performance

10m 01s

Module 06C | Dual Axis and Combo Charts

14m 20s

Module 06D | Multiple Measures on the Same Axis

04m 37s

Module 06E | The Visual Interpreter and Measure Names & Values

06m 21s

Module 06F | Multiple Measures Making Multiple Axes

13m 14s

Module 06G | Multiple Measures and Text Tables

14m 30s

Module 06H | Multiple Measures on a Highlight Tables

14m 42s

Module 06I | Bar in Bar Charts

10m 49s

Module 06J | Side by Side or Grouped Bars

08m 33s

Module 06K | Review

04m 50s

Module 07 | Aggregation and Beginning Calculations

230m 39s total

Module 07A | Aggregation & Review

16m 04s

Module 07B | The Four Levels of Calculations

23m 02s

Module 07C | The Calculation Editor

07m 12s

Module 07D | Data Types and Literals

21m 48s

Module 07E | Nulls

21m 38s

Module 07F | Operators and Precedence

07m 57s

Module 07G | String Calculations

16m 58s

Module 07H | Validating Calculations

19m 39s

Module 07I | Date Calculations

28m 31s

Module 07J | Logical Calculations

25m 06s

Module 07K | Aggregate Calculations

27m 59s

Module 07L | Type-In Calculations

13m 53s

Module 07M | Review

03m 32s

Module 08 | Filtering and Sorting

141m 51s total

Module 08A | Visual Filters

10m 06s

Module 08B | Filtering Discrete Dimensions

10m 08s

Module 08C | Filtering Discrete Measures

05m 16s

Module 08D | Filtering Dates

06m 31s

Module 08E | Filtering Continuous Numbers

05m 14s

Module 08F | Quick Filter Options

05m 09s

Module 08G | Top and Conditional Filters

18m 08s

Module 08H | Order of Operations

18m 17s

Module 08I | Hide, Zoom, and Table Calculation Filters

18m 28s

Module 08J | Scoped, Global, and Cross Data Source Filters

11m 15s

Module 08K | One-Click Sorts

03m 16s

Module 08L | Default Sorts and Manual Sorts

05m 46s

Module 08M | Discrete Dimension Pill Sorts

07m 42s

Module 08N | Nested Sorts

08m 46s

Module 08O | Continuous Axis Sorts

06m 33s

Module 08P | Review

03m 16s

Module 09 | Organizing Categorizing and Cohorting

102m 04s total

Module 09A | Introduction and Aliases

12m 07s

Module 09B | Combined Fields

12m 24s

Module 09C | Ad Hoc Groups

12m 06s

Module 09D | Hierarchies

07m 41s

Module 09E | Introduction to Sets and Using Sets as Filters

09m 43s

Module 09F | Using Sets as Dimensions

05m 18s

Module 09G | Using Sets in Calculated Fields

08m 25s

Module 09H | Combining Sets

07m 57s

Module 09I | Bins

09m 43s

Module 09J | Building Your Own Bins

15m 32s

Module 09K | Review

03m 08s

Module 10 | Formatting and Polishing

70m 40s total

Module 10A | Introduction and Before You Format

15m 05s

Module 10B | Format Menus and Window

05m 03s

Module 10C | Headers and Axis Formatting

12m 10s

Module 10D | Titles and Captions

08m 08s

Module 10E | Mark Label

11m 27s

Module 10F | Tooltips

09m 28s

Module 10G | Annotations

08m 06s

Module 10H | Review

01m 53s

Module 11 | Part to Whole Views

54m 63s total

Module 11A | Definition of Part to Whole Views

04m 41s

Module 11B | Stacked Bars and 100% Stacked Bars

09m 42s

Module 11C | Area Charts

05m 48s

Module 11D | Pie Charts

13m 50s

Module 11E | Introduction to Non-Cartesian Charts

02m 36s

Module 11F | Packed Bubble Charts

04m 43s

Module 11G | Word Clouds

08m 06s

Module 11H | Treemaps

05m 38s

Module 11I | Review

01m 59s

Module 12 | Post-Aggregate Calculations

91m 38s total

Module 12A | Introduction

04m 44s

Module 12B | Introduction to Grand Totals

09m 57s

Module 12C | Subtotals and Two-Pass Totals

10m 56s

Module 12D | Introduction to Reference Lines, Bands, and Distributions

05m 15s

Module 12E | Reference Lines

12m 09s

Module 12F | Reference Bands

06m 39s

Module 12G | Reference Distributions

07m 51s

Module 12H | Trend Lines

14m 38s

Module 12I | Clustering

05m 59s

Module 12J | Forecasting

13m 39s

Module 12K | Review

02m 31s

Module 13 | Data Sources and Joins

207m 90s total

Module 13A | Introduction and Metadata Management

11m 05s

Module 13B | Types of Data Sources

13m 24s

Module 13C | Tableau Data Extracts

13m 05s

Module 13D | MS Excel and Data Interpreter

08m 56s

Module 13E | Tidy Data and Pivot

15m 55s

Module 13F | Initial SQL Custom SQL and Alternatives

11m 24s

Module 13G | Introduction to Joins

10m 33s

Module 13H | Creating Joins in Tableau

07m 02s

Module 13I | A Process for Engineering and Validating Successful Joins

14m 04s

Module 13J | Working with Joins that Return Fewer Records

17m 08s

Module 13K | Working Joins that Return More Records

23m 52s

Module 13L | Handling Other Join Points of Failure

04m 14s

Module 13M | Cross-Database Joins

09m 45s

Module 13N | Join Calculations

07m 56s

Module 13O | Introduction to Tableau Data Blends

08m 23s

Module 13P | Data Blending Labs

19m 58s

Module 13Q | Unions

10m 17s

Module 13R | Review

04m 09s

Module 14 | Additional Calculations and Parameters

213m 97s total

Module 14A | Introduction and Review

08m 17s

Module 14B | The Six Patterns of Calculations

23m 15s

Module 14C | Introduction to Table Calculations

19m 45s

Module 14D | Compute Using – Intro to Addressing

11m 09s

Module 14E | Compute Using – More Complex Addressing

19m 48s

Module 14F | Compute Using – Partitioning

06m 39s

Module 14G | Table Calculation Considerations

22m 43s

Module 14H | Introduction to Level of Detail (LOD) Expressions

11m 13s

Module 14I | FIXED LOD Expressions

18m 10s

Module 14J | INCLUDE and EXCLUDE LOD Expressions

21m 43s

Module 14K | LOD Expression Considerations

08m 11s

Module 14L | Table Calculation or LOD Expression – Which Calc Should I Use

06m 45s

Module 14M | Parameters

19m 03s

Module 14N | Pages Shelf and Motion Charts

16m 05s

Module 14O | Review

03m 51s

Instructor

JONATHAN DRUMMEY

BI Consultant and Trainer
Jonathan Drummey is a long-time Tableau Zen Master and Tableau Forums Ambassador and his blog posts and writings have helped tens of thousands of users worldwide. He is the author of the Tableau Basic curriculum from PragmaticWorks and is a consultant and lead trainer for DataBlick, a Tableau consultancy.

System Requirements

To run these labs you must have Tableau Desktop installed. You can use either Tableau Desktop Personal or Tableau Desktop Professional. If you don’t have Tableau installed then you can download the 14-day trial from http://www.tableau.com/products/trial.
Your computer should meet the following minimum requirements:
- Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP 3, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows 8 or Microsoft Windows 10
- 32-bit or 64-bit CPU
- Minimum of an Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Opteron processor
- 512 MB of available RAM (more is better)
- 1GB of free hard drive space
- 32-bit color depth
- Internet access

What to Know Before Class

A basic understanding of data structures would be helpful but not required.

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Introduction to Tableau

Part Of The On-Demand Courses

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

This course includes:

Course Description

Outline

Instructor

JONATHAN DRUMMEY

System Requirements

What to Know Before Class

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