Intermediate Tableau | Tableau Desktop II

2 Days Instructor-led

Geared for experienced Tableau, Intermediate Tableau | Tableau Desktop II is a two-day, lab intensive hands-on course that provides participants with the skills required to move from simple to complex visualizations, and to combine them in interactive dashboards.

All course labs and solutions, data sets, Tableau software, detailed courseware, lab guides and resources (as applicable) are provided for attendees in our easy access, no installation required, remote lab environment for the duration of the course. Our tech team will help set up, test and verify lab access for each attendee prior to the course start date, ensuring a smooth start to class and successful hands-on course experience for all participants.

Course Outline

Part 1: Simplifying and Sorting Your Data

1. Data Filtering
2. Creating Date Filters
3. Sorting

Part 2: Organizing Your Data

1. Using Groups
2. Creating and Using Hierarchies

Part 3: Slicing Your Data by Date

1. Working with Dates in Tableau
2. Using Discrete Date Parts
3. Defining a Fiscal Year
4. Creating Custom Dates

Part 4: Using Multiple Measures in a View

1. Using Measure Values and Measure Names in a View
2. Combo Charts
3. Combined or Shared Axis Charts
4. Creating Dual Axis Charts

Part 5: Showing the Relationship between Numerical Values

1. Creating Scatter Plots
2. Using Sets

Part 6: Viewing Specific Values

1. Creating Heat Maps
2. Creating Crosstabs
3. Creating Highlight Tables
4. Grand Totals, Sub-Totals, and Changing Aggregation

Part 7: Customizing Your Data

1. Calculation Types
2. Parts of a Calculated Field
3. Options for Creating Calculated Fields
4. Strings, Dates, and Type Conversion Functions
5. Calculations and Aggregations

Part 8: Analyzing Data with Quick Table Calculations

1. Using Quick Table Calculations

Part 9: Showing Breakdowns of the Whole

1. Pie Charts and Parts of the Whole
2. Creating Tree Maps

Part 10: Viewing Distributions

1. Bins and Histograms
2. Box and Whisker Plots

Part 11: Making Your Views Available

1. Building Dashboards
2. Dashboard Actions

This course is also available on our public schedule via Live Virtual Classroom: