Course objectives
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Connect to various data sources (e.g., Excel, CSV, databases)
- Clean and prepare data for analysis
- Create a variety of visualizations (e.g., bar charts, line charts, pie charts, maps)
- Customize visualizations with formatting, colors, and labels
- Build interactive dashboards with filters, parameters, and actions
- Share and publish Tableau visualizations
Course outlines
- Module 1: Introduction to Tableau
- What is Tableau?
- The Tableau Desktop interface
- Connecting to data sources
- Basic data exploration and understanding
- Module 2: Data Preparation and Cleaning
- Data blending and joining
- Data filtering and sorting
- Creating calculated fields
- Data aggregation and calculations
- Module 3: Building Visualizations
- Creating basic visualizations (bar charts, line charts, pie charts)
- Customizing visualizations (formatting, colors, labels)
- Using show, me function to quickly create visualizations
- Adding tooltips and annotations
- Module 4: Interactive Dashboards
- Creating dashboards
- Adding filters, parameters, and actions
- Formatting dashboards
- Storyboarding with Tableau
- Module 5: Sharing and Publishing
- Exporting visualizations and dashboards
- Publishing to Tableau Server and Tableau Public
- Sharing visualizations with others
- Hands-on Exercises and Projects: Throughout the course, participants will work on practical exercises and projects to reinforce their learning. These exercises will cover:
- Connecting to real-world datasets
- Cleaning and preparing data for analysis
- Creating insightful visualizations
- Building interactive dashboards
- Sharing and publishing visualizations
- By the end of this course, participants will have a solid foundation in Tableau and be able to use it to create compelling data visualizations and dashboards.