Who it's for: Anyone looking to get the most out of Tableau's unmatched data visualization tools.
What it is: Tableau is a popular tool for analyzing and visualizing data, with powerful tools like interactive dashboards, custom reports, and more.
What you'll learn: In this 6-part series, we start with the basics, showing you some best practices for connecting data sources and creating univariate, bivariate, and multivariate charts. Then, we jump into working with maps and groups. Next, we explore calculating user-defined fields, as well as customizing, saving, and exporting. We take some time to go over summarizing and interacting with data and then end with a sizable series of tips and tricks on dashboards, visuals, and sharing your creations with the world.
- Introduction (1:38)
- Making Dashboards Relevant (1:41)
- String Manipulation in Dashboards (3:36)
- Concatenating Customer Fields (2:06)
- Concatenating Region and State Fields (2:18)
- Creating and Applying Calculated Fields to Sheets (2:27)
- Correcting Data Exports from Tableau to Excel (5:27)
- Introduction to Blending Data (1:36)
- Bringing in Sources and Editing Blend Relationships (4:36)
- Creating Text Tables from Sources and Excluding Incomplete Data (2:47)
- Optimizing Tips for Efficient Fast Visualizations (1:18)
- Adding Dashboard Actions for Companion Visualization Sheets (2:17)
- Adding Text Objects to Direct Users on Accessing Actions (2:43)
- Reviewing Dashboard Marks from the Status Bar (0:50)
- Introduction to Adding Infographics (1:11)
- Adding New Shapes (2:59)
- Copying Sheets and Changing Mark Colors for Different Regions (1:06)
- Creating Sheets for the Other Two Regions (0:53)
- Creating Line Charts for Regions and Explaining Data (5:37)
- Creating Charts Showing All Regions and Sales (3:00)
- Creating a Central Region Infographic (7:48)
- More Practice Adding Inforgraphics (1:12)
- Making Dashboards Relevant Recap (3:44)
- Visual Best Practices (1:07)
- Coloring Numbers (2:01)
- Dual Axis Dueling (0:53)
- Pie Charts or Not (1:13)
- Sizing to Make a Data Story (2:10)
- 3D Data (0:55)
- Obtaining and Reviewing Excel Source Files (1:31)
- Creating Inner Joins on Tables Using Join Calculations (2:00)
- Determining MAX Profit Ratio (3:30)
- Starting on the New Visualization (3:07)
- Applying 3D Shapes to Sub-Categories (3:11)
- Increasing Column Size and Deleting Axis and Lines (4:22)
- Visual Best Practices Recap (0:53)
- Sharing Dashboards (0:24)
- Exporting Packaged Workbooks (2:01)
- Publishing to Tableau Public (5:22)
- Mobilizing Your Dashboards and Other Layout Options (3:42)
- Sharing Dashboards Recap (1:46)
- Conclusion (4:04)