Course Code: 19201

Tableau Desktop I: Fundamentals

Class Dates:
1/6/2025
2/24/2025
Length:
2 Days
Cost:
$1295.00
Class Time:
Technology:
Desktop
Delivery:
Instructor-Led Training, Virtual Instructor-Led Training

Overview

  • Course Overview
  • Skills Gained At the end of this class, you will be able to: Connect to your data. Edit and save a data source. Understand Tableau terminology. Use the Tableau interface / paradigm to effectively create powerful visualizations. Create basic calculations including basic arithmetic calculations.
  • Audience
  • This course is designed for the beginner Tableau user. It is for anyone who works with data, regardless of technical or analytical background. This course is designed to help you understand and use the important concepts and techniques in Tableau to move from simple to complex visualizations and learn how to combine them in interactive dashboards

Prerequisites

  • Skills Gained
    At the end of this class, you will be able to:
    Connect to your data.
    Edit and save a data source.
    Understand Tableau terminology.
    Use the Tableau interface / paradigm to effectively create powerful visualizations.
    Create basic calculations including basic arithmetic calculations, custom aggregations and ratios, date math, and quick table calculations.
    Represent your data using the following visualization types:
    Cross Tabs, Geographic Maps, Heat Maps, Tree Maps, Pie Charts and Bar Charts, Dual Axis and Combo Charts with different mark types.
    Highlight Tables, Scatter Plots, Build dashboards to share visualizations

Course Disclaimer

*Course Cost listed does not include the cost of courseware. Course is subject to a minimum enrollment. Course may run virtually as a Virtual Instructor-Led (VILT) class if the minimum enrollment is not met. For more information, please contact: learn@vtec.org or call 207-775-0244.

Course Details

  • Outline
  • Introduction, Connecting to data
  • Simplifying and sorting your data
  • Organizing your data, Slicing your data by date
  • Using multiple measures in a view
  • Showing the relationship between numerical values
  • Mapping data geographically, Viewing specific values
  • Customizing your data
  • Analyzing data with quick table calculations
  • Showing breakdowns of the whole
  • Highlighting data with reference lines
  • Making your views available