Tableau for Beginners - Getting Started in Tableau

About Tableau for Beginners - Getting Started in Tableau

Tableau is one of the best data analytics and business intelligence tools available. In this course, we introduce you to this powerful, market-leading tool and get you started building your very own visualizations. Move at your own pace as you learn how to navigate Tableau, connect to data sources, and make use of the drag-and-drop interface to create interactive charts and dashboards. We’ll cover everything from understanding business intelligence and basic data concepts to applying your own calculations, expressions, and functions in Tableau. As you progress through the course we’ll have you testing your Tableau skills with a series of Tableau exercises and challenges. Please note that this course focuses on Tableau Desktop and is aimed at people brand new to Tableau or people transitioning from Excel to Tableau. In this course, you will learn:

What Tableau is and the product suite

What business intelligence is

The Tableau interface and its major functions

Which data structures are suitable for Tableau

How Tableau reads and categorizes data

Different data concepts and theory

How to connect and manage data sources in Tableau

How to navigate the Tableau workspace

How to build a view and different chart types in Tableau

How to create a dashboard in Tableau

How to publish and share a workbook

How to use calculated fields in Tableau

How to use numeric, string, conditional, and analytical expressions/functions in Tableau This course includes: 1.

6+ hours of video

tutorials 2.

33 individual video lectures

3.

Exercise files

to practice what you learn

Here's what our students are saying...

_★★★★★ "I needed something to walk me through the basic methods for working with Tableau, and this course did that very well."_

_-Evan Sewall_