Teaching you how to tell compelling stories with data by building accessible visualization and dashboards. With these skills, you will be able to present complicated results in a comprehensive way to non-technical audiences.
Tableau is now one of the most popular business intelligence tools in the world. It allows non-technical users to visualize data and work with it immediately. This course shows how you can use Tableau to create state-of-the-art visualizations and powerful dashboards, which is precisely what corporate executives need when making decisions.
With Tableau, you can create powerful visualizations and dashboards from the data you’re working with, which is a valuable skill in the workplace. Our introductory course is here to teach you how to do just that!
While Tableau is an indispensable tool in the arsenal of most corporate business intelligence analysts, data analysts, and data scientists, many people are uncertain about the difference between Tableau and spreadsheet tools like Excel. In this part of the course, you will learn when and why you need Tableau, as well as the difference between Tableau and other spreadsheet tools. We will also get you started by showing you how to install Tableau Public (Tableau’s free version).
In this section, you will create your first Tableau charts and tables. We will teach you how to create basic charts and adjust parts of their appearance. By the end of this section, you will be able to use many of Tableau's core functionalities, like creating custom fields, adding calculations to a table, adding totals and subtotals, and adding a filter.
This section is a practical example that will help you apply your skills in practice with real data. The exercise is divided into two parts. In the first part, we will test several ways to connect our data. You already studied joins in SQL. Here, you will see how to apply joins in a Tableau context. You will also learn about data blending, and current best practices. By the end of the exercise, you will create three charts. Each of these charts analyzes a different aspect of a real-life dataset. We will group the charts in a dashboard and add a filter, applying it to all three charts at the same time.
Student feedback
“Data scientists don’t just need to deal with data and solve data driven problems. They also need to convince company executives of the right decisions to make. That’s where Tableau comes in – and we will help you become an expert story teller using the leading visualisation software in business intelligence and data science.”
CEO at 365 Data Science
Introduction to Tableau
with Ned Krastev
