TDT-A: Tableau Desktop Training (Accelerated)

MODULE 1: INTRODUCTION TO TABLEAU

• THE TABLEAU PLATFORM
• APPLICATION TERMINOLOGY
• VISUAL CUES FOR FIELDS
• GETTING STARTED IN TABLEAU
• UNDERSTANDING PERMISSIONS IN TABLEAU
• NAVIGATING A TABLEAU SITE

MODULE 2: SETTING UP CONNECTIONS AND DATA SOURCES

• TABLEAU FILE TYPES AND EXTENSIONS
• CREATING A LIVE DATA CONNECTION
• SAVING AND EDITING A DATA SOURCE
• MODIFYING DATA ATTRIBUTES

MODULE 3: SIMPLIFYING AND SORTING YOUR DATA

• DATA FILTERING
• CREATING DATE FILTERS
• NESTED SORTING AND CONTEXT FILTERS
• SORTING

MODULE 4: ORGANIZING YOUR DATA

• USING GROUPS
• CREATING AND USING HIERARCHIES

MODULE 5: VIEWING SPECIFIC VALUES

• CREATING CROSSTABS
• GRAND TOTALS, SUBTOTALS, AND CHANGING AGGREGATION
• CREATING HIGHLIGHT TABLES

MODULE 6: SLICING YOUR DATA BY DATE

• WORKING WITH DATES IN TABLEAU
• USING DISCRETE DATE PARTS AND CONTINUOUS DATE VALUES

MODULE 7: USING MULTIPLE MEASURES IN A VIEW

• USING MEASURE VALUES AND MEASURE NAMES IN A VIEW
• COMBINED OR SHARED AXIS CHARTS
• CREATING DUAL AXIS CHARTS

MODULE 8: SHOWING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NUMERICAL VALUES

• SHOWING CORRELATIONS AND OUTLIERS WITH SCATTER PLOTS
• CREATE A SCATTER PLOT
• ANALYZE USING THE HIGHLIGHTER
• ANALYZE AN OUTLIER USING EXPLAIN DATA
• USING THE ANALYTICS PANE
• TREND LINES AND TREND MODEL
• REFERENCE LINES AND BANDS

MODULE 9: DATA CONNECTION OPTIONS

• DATA CONNECTIONS PAGE
• PHYSICAL AND LOGICAL LAYERS
• CONNECTING TO SINGLE- AND MULTI-TABLE DATA SOURCES
• MIGRATED DATA SOURCES
• THE DATA PANE USER INTERFACE
• VIEW DATA
• JOINS (INNER, LEFT AND RIGHT, FULL OUTER)
• UNIONS
• MERGING FIELDS
• RELATIONSHIP LEVELS OF DETAIL
• SETTING UP A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TABLES
• JOINS VS. RELATIONSHIPS
• RELATIONSHIPS, JOINS, UNIONS AND BLENDS
• COMBINING DATA DECISION TREE
• CREATING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN TABLES FROM DIFFERENT DATABASES

MODULE 10: DATA EXTRACTS

• USING DATA EXTRACTS
• CONFIGURING AND RUNNING AN EXTRACT
• LOGICAL TABLE VS. PHYSICAL TABLE EXTRACTS

MODULE 11: CUSTOMIZING YOUR DATA

• USING CALCULATIONS IN TABLEAU
• CALCULATION TYPES
• CREATING AND EDITING CALCULATED FIELDS
• FORMULA EDITOR CONVENTIONS
• TYPES OF CALCULATED FIELDS – EXAMPLES CALCULATIONS AND AGGREGATIONS STRING FUNCTIONS
• SPLIT AND CUSTOM SPLIT
• TYPE CONVERSIONS
• DATE CALCULATIONS – EXAMPLES
• JOIN CALCULATIONS
• LOD EXPRESSIONS
• SYNTAX AND CALCULATION TYPES

MODULE 12: ANALYZING DATA WITH QUICK TABLE

• TABLE CALCULATION OVERVIEW
• USING QUICK TABLE CALCULATIONS

MODULE 13: SHOWING BREAKDOWNS OF THE WHOLE

• PIE CHARTS AND PARTS OF THE WHOLE
• CREATING TREE MAPS

MODULE 14: ADVANCED TABLE CALCULATIONS

• TIPS FOR LEARNING TABLE CALCULATIONS
• LEVELS OF CONTROL
• TABLE CALCULATION SCOPE AND DIRECTION
• TABLE CALCULATION SPECIFIC DIMENSION
• OTHER SCOPE AND DIRECTION OPTIONS
• NULL VALUES IN TABLE CALCULATIONS
• USING RANK TO SHOW BIGGEST TO SMALLEST TABLE CALCULATIONS FOR STATISTICAL ANALYSIS

MODULE 15: CREATING AND USING PARAMETERS

• USING PARAMETERS
• PARAMETERS AND FILTERS
• USING PARAMETERS WITH REFERENCE LINES

MODULE 16: COMPARING MEASURES

• COMPARING TWO MEASURES (BAR IN BAR CHART)
• COMPARING PROGRESS TOWARD A GOAL (BULLET GRAPH)

MODULE 17: DEFINING SUBSETS OF YOUR DATA

• USING SETS
• COMBINED SETS
• IN AND OUT SETS

MODULE 18: VIEWING DISTRIBUTIONS

• BINS AND HISTOGRAMS
• BOX AND WHISKER PLOTS

MODULE 19: DASHBOARDS

• PLANNING YOUR DASHBOARD
• BUILDING YOUR DASHBOARD
• ADD INTERACTIVITY WITH FILTERS AND ACTIONS
• ADDING ACTIONS TO YOUR DASHBOARD
• ADDITIONAL DASHBOARD ACTIONS
• SET ACTIONS
• PARAMETER ACTIONS
• VISUAL BEST PRACTICES
• ADD INSTRUCTIONS & ANNOTATIONS TOOLTIPS
• REMOVE CHART EXTRAS
• PUBLISH YOUR DASHBOARD ONLINE