Getting Started with Tableau

Course description

The course is designed specifically for those who do not possess a data background or experience and want to increase their efficiency in cleaning, preparing, and sharing data.

Tableau - what is it?

A key feature of Tableau is its intuitive nature, making it easy for anyone to learn. As a starting point, mainly drag-and-drop visualizations are used. I can accomplish what would normally take me days/hours in Excel in a matter of minutes with Tableau.

Additionally, you do not need to have any programming or data experience. As a matter of fact, you do not need to know any programming, which is what makes this tool so desirable for beginners.

In this course you will learn:

• Overview of Tableau

• Tableau Starter Guide

• Live Connections, Data Extracts

• Logic (Boolean) and Numerical Formulas

• Text and Date Formulas

• Quick Table Calc's, Filtering, Legends, and Mapping

• Scatter, Analytics Menu, Forecast, Trends, Clusters

• Exports, Dashboard Interactions, Dashboard Design

Who this course is for:

• Basic to no experience with Excel

• Business Professionals need to visualize their company data

• Persons with scant or no background in data analytics or visualization

• The pre-Excel users must learn how to handle and process data in a more efficient manner

• Individuals where English is not their first language

• Individuals who are passionate about data analytics and visualization

• Professionals seeking careers as data analysts, scientists, etc.

Prerequisite

• No Prerequisites

What you will Learn ?

• Simple Charts: Pie, Bars, Area and Lines
• How to Filter your data with a few clicks
• Aggregates: Calculating Totals, Average, Maximum, Minimum, etc.
• Cleaning Data: Splitting combined data into multiple columns
• Build maps in seconds using the double-click method
• Create interactive dashboards

Lesson List