Tableau Boot Camp
About this Course
Join us for this Tableau Boot Camp class and find out how we can leverage the power of visualization. We will explore data visualization and how we can use it to better understand data using Tableau. We will also build dashboard analytics applications through hands-on exercises starting with the building components of analytics architecture through development, deployment and simple administrative functions. This course will cover the fundamentals of Tableau visualization and build the knowledge base necessary to tackle more advanced topics offered for analysts, developers and administrators.
The majority of this course is hands-on in a secure cloud environment. It teaches you how to implement data visualization techniques and practices to achieve better visualization, connecting to different data sources, creating dashboards and successful project deployments.
Audience Profile
Anyone who is interested in learning the power of analytics and dashboards.
At Course Completion
Upon course completion, students will be able to:
- Explore exceptional analytics demand and answer deeper business questions using Tableau
- Discover how to quickly build amazing Tableau dashboards and visualization in minutes
- Realize the value and power of data visualization for your organization
- Ability to answer the “where” as well as the “why”
- Create interactive maps automatically
- Deep understanding of big data, live or in-memory for larger dataset
- Learn to create an environment where everyone in your organization can share and collaborate
- Examine connection settings to your data using Tableau
- Understand Tableau terminology.
Course Outline
- Data Analysis and Visualization – Why Tableau?
- What are the primary use of Tableau?
- Creating dashboard, reports
- Data discovery and Visualization
- Self-Service BI
- Simple statistical analytics like trends and forecasting
- Overview of Tableau Products (Desktop, Server, Online)
- Exercise 1: This exercise shows how to navigate desktop, server and online.
- Overview of Tableau Desktop Program
- What is the Tableau desktop program?
- What are the benefits of the desktop program?
- Importing or Connecting Data Sources to Tableau
- How do you import or connect to different data sources?
- How do you use combine joins?
- What are the Connection options and data source filters?
- Exercise 2: This exercise how and when to connect on different data sources.
- Data Manipulation Within Tableau
- How do you manipulate data in Tableau?
- What are options of data manipulation?
- Exercise 3: This exercise shows the different data manipulations used in Tableau.
- Creating Visualizations in Tableau
- How do you manage Metadata?
- How do you add/create hierarchy?
- How do you perform extraction?
- What is the difference between live and extract?
- Animating Visualizations in Tableau
- How do you create animation in Tableau visualization?
- How do you use highlighter in Tableau?
- What are the examples of Tableau visualizations?
- Creating Dashboards in Tableau
- What are the best practices for dashboard design and visualization?
- How do you create dashboards in Tableau?
- Exercise 4: This exercise shows how to step by step create dashboards and worksheet in Tableau.
- Creating Story Points in Tableau
- How do you create story points in Tableau?
- Determine the who, what, why, and how of the storypoints
- How do you prioritize, optimize and design for your story?
- How do you frame data story in Tableau?
- What are the examples of Tableau story points?
- Exercise 5: This exercise shows different story points and how they can used in daily work for business presentation meeting. It encourages to do collaboration with the team's trusted data.
- What are the primary use of Tableau?
- Embedding Tableau Dashboards
- What are the steps in embedding Tableau dashboards?
- Exercise 6: This exercise shows how to embed Tableau views and dashboards into web pages, portals and power point presentation.
- Advanced Concepts - Using R and Tableau
- What is R?
- How can Tableau integrate R?
- Future of Tableau and Data Visualization
- What are the current data visualization trend?
- What is the future of Tableau and how do they innovate?
- IT Governance
- Tableau New Features - Alert
- Collaboration
- Hyper
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