Tableau Data Visualizations Course

This two-day Tableau Data Analytics class provides techniques for going beyond spreadsheets and tables mechanics and helps you design a visual that really makes an impact and are easy to understand. This practical course shows you how to use Tableau Software to convert raw data into compelling data visualizations that provide insight or allow viewers to explore the data for themselves.

Who Should Take This Class?

Experienced Tableau users who want to learn more about best practices for designing visualizations. Note that we assume you already know how to use Tableau. It is people who want to learn about proper design of visualizations, so they are understandable.

Ideal for analysts, engineers, marketers, journalists, and researchers, this course delivers the principles of communicating data and takes you on an in-depth tour of common visualization methods. You’ll learn how to craft articulate and creative data visualizations with Tableau Desktop

Prerequisites

You should have taken the Basic Tableau business intelligence course, intermediate tableau intelligence course or have had similar experience as found in those two courses.

You Will Learn How To:

• Present comparisons of how much and how many
• Use blended data sources to create ratios and rates
• Create charts to depict proportions and percentages
• Visualize measures of mean, median, and mode
• Lean how to deal with variation and uncertainty
• Communicate multiple quantities in the same view
• Show how quantities and events change over time
• Use maps to communicate positional data
• Build dashboards to combine several visualizations

Course Outline

• Module 1: Communicating Data
• Module 2: Introduction to Tableau
• Module 3: How Much and How Many
• Module 4: Fine-Tuning the Default
• Module 5: Ratios and Rates
• Module 6: Proportions and Percentages
• Module 7: Mean and Median
• Module 8: Variation and Uncertainty
• Module 9: Multiple Quantities
• Module 10: Changes Over Time
• Module 11: Maps and Location
• Module 12: Advanced Maps
• Module 13: The Joy of Dashboards
• Module 14: Building Dashboards
• Module 15: Advanced Dashboard Features