Data Visualization with Tableau Online Course

About the Course

Tableau is one of the fastest evolving Business Intelligence (BI) and data visualization tools. Data Visualization with Tableau helps your insights come compellingly alive and communicates complex ideas simply. Expressive visualization enables you to get beyond static charts to create multi-faceted views of data and explore every dimension. The rise of big data and the growing public awareness of its power has made this the moment for data visualization. Data visualization is changing the way the world looks at data.

Tableau is a Data Visualization tool for molding information into various visuals. This course gives an overview of the fundamentals, from normal computations to implementations of various concepts such as Integrating Tableau with R, advanced graphs, and formatting visualizations. This video course takes you on a journey in which you'll master data visualization using Tableau by getting to know valuable methods for utilizing advanced calculations to solve complex problems. These techniques include the creative use of different types of calculation such as row-level, aggregate-level, and more. You will discover how almost any data visualization challenge can be met in Tableau by a proper understanding of the tool's inner workings and creatively exploring its possibilities.

By the end of the course you will be equipped for success as a Data Analyst: you will be able to create effective dashboards and data visualization solutions using Tableau.

Course Curriculum

Introduction to Data Visualization and Tableau

• The Course Overview
• What Is Data Visualization?
• Why Visualize Data?
• Leading Data Visualization Tools
• Introduction to Tableau
• Tableau Products Suite
• Tableau File Types

Connecting to Data Sources

• Working on Excel Data
• Connecting to a Text Data Source
• Handling R Data
• Connecting to MS Access Database

Creating Basic Charts and Graphs

• Creating a Pie Chart
• Creating a Bar Chart
• Creating a Line Graph
• Discovering Scatter Plot

Data Management

• Handling Filter Data
• Discovering Context Filter
• Implementing Sorting
• Nested Sort
• Understanding Grouping of Data
• Manipulating Sets
• Creating Parameters

Working with Dates

• Discrete and Continuous

Table Calculation

• Percent of Total
• Running Total Calculations
• Computing "Rank"
• Moving Average
• Computing "Year on Year Growth"

Advanced Chart

• Combination Chart
• Dual Axis Chart
• Heat Map
• Tree Map
• Box Plot
• KPI Chart
• Waterfall Chart
• Bump Chart
• Level of Details (LOD)

Integrating R

• Linear Regression
• Performing "Market Basket Analysis" in Tableau
• K-means Clustering

Dashboards

• Building an Interactive Dashboard
• Best Practices for Effective Dashboards