Description

Duration

2.5 Days

15 CPD hours

This course is intended for

This course is intended for those with a basic understanding of Tableau who want to pursue mastery of the advanced features.

Overview

The goal of this course is to present essential Tableau concepts and its advanced functionalities to help better prepare and analyze data.

This course will use Tableau Hyper, Tableau Prep and more.

Getting Up to Speed ? a Review of the Basics

Connecting Tableau to your data
Connecting to Tableau Server
Connecting to saved data sources
Measure Names and Measure Values
Three essential Tableau concepts
Exporting data to other devices
Summary

All About Data ? Getting Your Data Ready

Data mining and knowledge discovery process models CRISP?DM

All About Data ? Joins, Blends, and Data Structures

All About Data - Joins, Blends, and Data Structures
Introduction to joins
Introduction to complex joins
Exercise: observing join culling
Introduction to join calculations
Introduction to spatial joins
Introduction to unions
Understanding data blending
Order of operations
No dimensions from a secondary source
Introduction to scaffolding
Introduction to data structures
Exercise: adjusting the data structure for different questions
Summary

Table Calculations

Table Calculations
A definition and two questions
Introduction to functions
Directional and non-directional table calculations
Application of functions
Summary

Level of Detail Calculations

Level of Detail Calculations
Building playgrounds
Playground I: FIXED and EXCLUDE
Playground II: INCLUDE
Practical application
Exercise: practical FIXED
Exercise: practical INCLUDE
Exercise: practical EXCLUDE
Summary

Beyond the Basic Chart Types

Beyond the Basic Chart Types
Improving popular visualizations
Custom background images
Tableau extensions
Summary

Mapping

Mapping
Extending Tableau's mapping capabilities without leaving Tableau
Extending Tableau mapping with other technology
Exercise: connecting to a WMS server
Exploring the TMS file
Exploring Mapbox
Accessing different maps with a dashboard
Creating custom polygons
Converting shape files for Tableau
Exercise: polygons for Texas
Heatmaps
Summary

Tableau for Presentations

Tableau for Presentations
Getting the best images out of Tableau
From Tableau to PowerPoint
Embedding Tableau in PowerPoint
Animating Tableau
Story points and dashboards for Presentations
Summary

Visualization Best Practices and Dashboard Design

Visualization Best Practices and Dashboard Design
Visualization design theory
Formatting rules
Color rules
Visualization type rules
Compromises
Keeping visualizations simple
Dashboard design
Dashboard layout
Sheet selection
Summary

Advanced Analytics

Advanced Analytics
Self-service Analytics
Use case ? Self-service Analytics
Use case ? Geo-spatial Analytics
Summary

Improving Performance

Improving Performance
Understanding the performance-recording dashboard
Exercise: exploring performance recording in Tableau desktop
Performance-recording dashboard events
Behind the scenes of the performance- recording dashboard
Hardware and on-the-fly techniques
Hardware considerations
On-the-fly-techniques
Single Data Source > Joining > Blending
Three ways Tableau connects to data
Using referential integrity when joining
Advantages of blending
Efficiently working with data sources
Tuning data sources
Working efficiently with large data sources
Intelligent extracts
Understanding the Tableau data extract
Constructing an extract for optimal performance
Exercise: summary aggregates for improved performance
Optimizing extracts
Exercise: materialized calculations
Using filters wisely
Extract filter performance
Data source filter performance
Context filters
Dimension and measure filters
Table-calculation filters
Efficient calculations
Boolean/Numbers > Date > String
Additional performance considerations
Avoid overcrowding a dashboard
Fixing dashboard sizing
Setting expectations
Summary

Additional course details:

Nexus Humans Advanced Tableau training program is a workshop that presents an invigorating mix of sessions, lessons, and masterclasses meticulously crafted to propel your learning expedition forward.

This immersive bootcamp-style experience boasts interactive lectures, hands-on labs, and collaborative hackathons, all strategically designed to fortify fundamental concepts.

Guided by seasoned coaches, each session offers priceless insights and practical skills crucial for honing your expertise. Whether you're stepping into the realm of professional skills or a seasoned professional, this comprehensive course ensures you're equipped with the knowledge and prowess necessary for success.

While we feel this is the best course for the Advanced Tableau course and one of our Top 10 we encourage you to read the course outline to make sure it is the right content for you.

Additionally, private sessions, closed classes or dedicated events are available both live online and at our training centres in Dublin and London, as well as at your offices anywhere in the UK, Ireland or across EMEA.

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Advanced Tableau

By Nexus Human

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