Course Code: 9853

Tableau 10 Bootcamp

Class Dates:
1/1/0001
Length:
5 Days
Cost:
$2495.00
Class Time:
Technology:
Desktop
Delivery:
Instructor-Led Training, Virtual Instructor-Led Training

Overview

  • Course Overview
  • Tableau is a leading visual analytics software that can uncover insights for better and smarter decision-making. Tableau has an uncanny ability to beautify your data, compared to other BI tools, which makes it an ideal choice for performing fast and easy visual analysis.

    In this 5 day fast-paced Bootcamp you will build your understanding of Tableau 10 in no time. You will increase your competence in integrating analytics and forecasting to enhance data analysis during the course.

    Each lesson presents core concepts and key takeaways about a topic in Tableau and provides a series of hands-on exercises.

    What You Will Learn:
    Complete practical Tableau tasks with each lesson
    Build different types of charts in Tableau with ease
    Extend data using calculated fields and parameters
    Prepare and refine data for analysis
    Create engaging and interactive dashboards
    Present data effectively using story points

Prerequisites

  • While there are no pre-requisites for this course, the rapid pace of this class favors those students who learn new concepts quickly, or have previous experience with data analysis and business intelligence

Course Disclaimer

*Course Cost listed does not include the cost of courseware. Please refer to your Invoice for the additional cost. If you have any questions, please contact us at learn@vtec.org or 207-775-0244. Course is subject to a minimum enrollment to run. If the minimum is not met than this class may run as a live online class.

Course Details

  • Creating Your First Visualization and Dashboard
  • Creating Your First Visualization and Dashboard
  • Connecting to data
  • Foundations for building visualizations
  • Visualizing data
  • Creating bar charts
  • Line charts
  • Creating geographic visualizations
  • Using Show Me
  • Bringing everthing together in a dashboard
  • Interactivity
  • Interactivity
  • Creating a motion chart
  • Creating a dynamic column/row trellis chart
  • Creating a top/bottom N filter
  • Comparing one to everthing else
  • Dynamically displaying dimensions
  • Dynamically displaying and sorting measures
  • Moving from Foundational to More Advanced Visualizations
  • Moving from Foundational to More Advanced Visualizations
  • Comparing values across different dimensions
  • visualizing dates and times
  • Relating parts of the data to the whole
  • Visualizing distributions
  • Visualizing multiple axes to compare different measures
  • Dashboards and Story Points
  • Dashboards and Story Points
  • Creating a filter action
  • Creatinga URL action
  • Creating an infographic-like dashboard
  • Creating story points
  • Data Preparation
  • Data Preparation
  • Using the Data Interpreter and pivots
  • Using the legacy Jet driver
  • Using schema.ini to resolve data type issues
  • Pivoting columns
  • using unions, Using joins, Using blends
  • Using Row-Level, Aggregate, and Level of Detail Calculations
  • Using Row-Level, Aggregate, and Level of Detail Calculations
  • Creating and editing calculations
  • Level of detail calculations
  • Parameters
  • Ad hoc calculations
  • Performance considerations
  • Table Calculations
  • Table Calculations
  • Overview of table calculations
  • Quick table calculations
  • Relative versus fixed
  • Scope and direction
  • Addressing and partitioning
  • Advanced addressing and partitioning
  • Custom table calculations
  • Data densification
  • Formatting Visualizations to Look Great and Work Well
  • Formatting Visualizations to Look Great and Work Well
  • Formatting considerations
  • Understanding how formatting works in Tableau
  • Adding value to visualizations
  • Advanced Visualizations, Techniques, Tips, and Tricks
  • Advanced Visualizations, Techniques, Tips, and Tricks
  • Advanced visualizations
  • Sheet swapping and dynamic dashboards
  • Advanced mapping techniques
  • Using bacground images
  • Animation
  • Sharing Your Data Story
  • Sharing Your Data Story
  • Presenting, printing, and exporting
  • Sharing with users
  • Sharing with users of Tableau Server, Tableau Online , and Tableau Public
  • Additional distribution options using Tableau Server