Advanced Tableau Training

Course Outline

This Advanced Tableau course will build on what you learned in the introduction course 1256, Tableau Visual Analytics Training, and enhance your knowledge up to the level of a Tableau Qualified Associate.

Advanced Tableau Training Benefits

  • In this course, you will learn how to:

    • Implement Tableau’s best practices
    • Review calculations and implement your own
    • Work with calendar data and use fiscal dates
    • Work with advanced geographical data
    • Create advanced charts and tables
    • Develop dashboards using best practices
    • Utilize Tableau prep to prepare data in its various forms
    • Gain a firm understanding of the best practices required when creating visualizations and dashboards
    • Learn about advanced calculations, including table calculations and level-of-detail calculations
    • Use advanced date and time handling and advanced mapping data
  • Prerequisites

    Experience with Tableau at the level of Learning Tree course 1256, Tableau Visual Analytics Training.

Advanced Tableau Course Outline

Module 1: Best Practices

  • Creating Visualizations - best practices

Module 2: Calculations

  • Review of Calculations
  • Advanced Table calculations
  • Level of Detail Calculations

Module 3: Time Based Calculations

  • Discrete vs Continuous time-based data
  • Creating alternative calendars – i.e. Fiscal

Module 4: Geographical Data

  • Mapping geographical data

Module 5: Advanced Data Sources

  • Custom SQL
  • Stored Procedures
  • Parameters

Module 6: Building Advanced Dashboards

  • Best practices for creating dashboards
  • Building advanced dashboards

Module 7: Tableau Prep

  • Best practices for data prep
  • Cleaning Data
  • Shaping Data
  • Combining Data
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