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Next Level Tableau for Power Users (Intermediate) is a two-day, fast paced hands-on intermediate and beyond level Tableau course geared for experienced Tableau users to get their skills to the next level and become a true Power User, or for those users who are seeking to uncover the less obvious tricks and tips within Tableau that can help them accelerate their day to day tasks.
Unlimited Duration
March 3, 2021
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. In this course you will learn about:
• Build advanced chart types and visualizations
• Build complex calculations to manipulate your data
• Work with statistics and statistical techniques
• Work with parameters and input controls
• Implement advanced geographic mapping techniques and use custom images and geocoding to build spatial visualizations of non-geographic data
• Implement all options in working with data: Joining multiple tables, data blending, performance considerations and working with the Data Engine, sharing your connections as meta data, and understand when to implement which connection method.
• Build better dashboards using techniques for guided analytics, interactive dashboard design and visual best practices
• Implement many efficiency tips and tricks
• Understand the basics of Tableau Server and other options for sharing your results
Course Curriculum
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- Why Tableau? Why Visualization? 00:00:00
- The Tableau Product Line 00:00:00
- Level Setting – Terminology 00:00:00
- Getting Started – creating some powerful visualizations quickly 00:00:00
- Review of some Key Fundamental Concepts 00:00:00
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- Filtering, Sorting and Grouping are fundamental concepts when working with and analyzing data. 00:00:00
- Advanced options for filtering and hiding 00:00:00
- Understanding your many options for ordering and grouping your data: Sort, 00:00:00
- Groups, Bins, Sets 00:00:00
- Understanding how these options inter-relate 00:00:00
- Learn the difference between joining and blending data, and to do each 00:00:00
- Consider the implications of working with large data sets, and options for when and how to work with extracts and the data engine. 00:00:00
- Investigate best practices in “sharing” data sources for Tableau Server users. 00:00:00
- Data Types and Roles • Dimension versus Measures • Data Types • Discrete versus Continuous • The meaning of pill colors 00:00:00
- Database Joins 00:00:00
- Data Blending 00:00:00
- Working with the Data Engine / Extracts and scheduling extract updates 00:00:00
- Working with Custom SQL 00:00:00
- Adding to Context 00:00:00
- Switching to Direct Connection 00:00:00
- Building meta data via shared Data Source connections 00:00:00
- Performance considering and working with big data 00:00:00
- OLAP considerations (Overview) 00:00:00
- Fundamentals Review: Building basic maps • Fixing geographies • Geographic Fields • Map Options 00:00:00
- Built-in Demographics / Layering 00:00:00
- WMS – working with a Web Map Service 00:00:00
- Importing Custom Geographies 00:00:00
- Assigning Geographies to Non-Geographic fields 00:00:00
- Distance Calculations 00:00:00
- Spatially Visualizing non-Geographic Data using background images and geo-coding 00:00:00
- Bar in Bar 00:00:00
- Box Plot 00:00:00
- Bullet Chart 00:00:00
- Custom Shapes 00:00:00
- Gantt Chart 00:00:00
- Heat Map 00:00:00
- Pareto Chart 00:00:00
- Spark Line 00:00:00
- KPI Chart 00:00:00
- Interactive Dashboards • Quick Filters • Dashboard Objects • Filter Actions • Highlighting and Actions • Performance • Publish to Web • Zones 00:00:00
- Guided Analytics • Cascading Filters • Highlighting • Quick filter Options • Select then See Visual • Self-Populating Dashboards • Shortcuts • URL Actions 00:00:00
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