Tableau Desktop II | Intermediate (AA-TTDTAB007)

Geared for experienced Tableau users, Intermediate Tableau | Tableau Desktop II is a two-day, lab intensive hands-on course that provides participants with the skills required to move from simple to complex visualizations, and to combine them in interactive dashboards.

NOTE: The Tableau Training Series is independent-format training that can be tuned and adjusted to best meet your needs. Our materials are flexible, comprehensive, and are always instructed by a senior instructor with a deep understanding of Tableau and its most current features, benefits and functionality in a wide array of uses. This is not Official Tableau Training.

1. Simplifying and Sorting Your Data

• Data Filtering
• Creating Date Filters
• Sorting

2. Organizing Your Data

• Using Groups
• Creating and Using Hierarchies

3. Slicing Your Data by Date

• Working with Dates in Tableau
• Using Discrete Date Parts
• Defining a Fiscal Year
• Creating Custom Dates

4. Using Multiple Measures in a View

• Using Measure Values and Measure Names in a View
• Combo Charts
• Combined or Shared Axis Charts
• Creating Dual Axis Charts

5. Showing the Relationship between Numerical Values

• Creating Scatter Plots
• Using Sets

6. Viewing Specific Values

• Creating Heat Maps
• Creating Crosstabs
• Creating Highlight Tables
• Grand Totals, Sub-Totals, and Changing Aggregation

7. Customizing Your Data

• Calculation Types
• Parts of a Calculated Field
• Options for Creating Calculated Fields
• Strings, Dates, and Type Conversion Functions
• Calculations and Aggregations

8. Analyzing Data with Quick Table Calculations

• Using Quick Table Calculations

9. Showing Breakdowns of the Whole

• Pie Charts and Parts of the Whole
• Creating Tree Maps

10. Viewing Distributions

• Bins and Histograms
• Box and Whisker Plots

11. Making Your Views Available

• Building Dashboards
• Dashboard Actions

This skills-focused course is approximately 50% hands-on, combining expert lecture, real-world demonstrations and group discussions with machine-based practical labs and exercises.

Working in a hands-on learning environment led by our expert facilitator, students will:

• Understand Tableau terminology
• Use the Tableau interface / paradigm to effectively create powerful visualizations
• Create basic calculations including string manipulation, basic arithmetic calculations, custom aggregations and ratios, date math, logic statements and quick table calculations
• Use groups, bins, hierarchies, sorts, sets, and filters to create focused and effective visualizations
• Use Measure Name and Measure Value fields to create visualizations with multiple measures and dimensions.
• Handle changes in data source such as field addition, deletion or name changes.
• Share visualizations with others.
• Combine visualizations into Interactive Dashboards and publish them to the web.
• Represent data using the following visualization types:
• Cross tabs
• Heat maps
• Distribution charts
• Tree maps
• Pie charts and bar charts
• Dual axis and combo charts with different mark types
• Box plots
• Highlight tables
• Scatter plots

• This is an Intermediate level Tableau course geared for experienced Tableau users who wish to leverage Tableauís more advanced capabilities.

Do you have more questions? We're delighted to assist you!

• This hands-on course focuses on "learning by doing", combining expert lecture, practical demonstrations and group discussions with plenty of machine-based real-world programming labs and exercises. Student machines are required.

Tableau Experienced Users