Advanced Tableau Training
Course 1257
3 DAY COURSE
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
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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
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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
- choosing a selection results in a full page refresh