Tableau Web Authoring Essentials

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:

• Navigate the Tableau Online and Tableau Server user interface

• Understand Tableau terminology

• Interact with existing Tableau workbooks and create custom views

• Tag content, subscribe to views, and export views

• Connect to previously published data sources

• Create and edit workbooks in the web authoring environment

• Use filters and sorting to customize data views

• Work with date fields in Tableau

• Explore and create common visualization types, including crosstabs, geographic maps, bar charts, line

• graphs, heat maps, highlight tables, combined axis charts, and scatter plots

• Create dashboards

• Use reference lines and built-in analytics to highlight important elements of your data

• Create basic calculations including string manipulation, basic arithmetic calculations, custom calculations and ratios, and quick table calculations