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Overview

Tableau: Powering Data Insights for Scientists - Visualize, Analyze, and Transform Complex Data into Actionable Insights

Duration

6 hours

Mode of learning

Online

Difficulty level

Intermediate

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Credential

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Highlights

  • Earn a certificate of completion from LinkedIn Learning
  • Learn from expert faculty
  • Access on tablet and phone
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Tableau for Data Scientists
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Course details

Who should do this course?
  • Data scientists seeking to enhance their data visualization and analysis skills
What are the course deliverables?
  • Master the fundamentals of Tableau to efficiently visualize complex datasets
  • Develop skills to create interactive dashboards tailored for data analysis and presentation
  • Understand advanced Tableau functionalities to manipulate and transform data for deeper insights
  • Learn to integrate Tableau with statistical tools for robust data modeling and analysis
More about this course
  • If your work requires any sort of graphical visualization of data, chances are you’ve run into Tableau. If you’ve been using Tableau but want to learn how to really harness its full power for data science, join expert Matt Francis in this course as he shows you how to take your skills to the next level
  • Matt starts with one of the most important features in Tableau: the difference between the green and blue pills (discrete and continuous data) and how this affects every single action Tableau performs
  • He then shows how to connect to and combine data from different data sources, how to create different charts to make sense of data, ways to transform your data with calculations, and how to create interactive maps

Tableau for Data Scientists
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Curriculum

Introduction

The power of Tableau for data scientists

What you should know

Green and Blue Fields: What Do They Mean?

Understand the difference between green and blue fields

How do green and blue fields affect rows and columns?

Connecting to a Source of Data

How to connect to Excel sheets

How to clean Excel data with the data interpreter

How to connect to PDF files and extract tables of data

Combining Data

Combining data using relationships

What are the different ways of joining data?

How to join tables in the same data connection

How to join tables using a cross-database join

When and How to Create Data Extracts

What are the pros and cons of using a data extract?

How to create a data extract

How to limit the data in a data extract

How to edit a data extract to include more data

Comparing Measures

What are measure names and measure values?

Creating a combined axis chart

Creating a dual axis chart

Creating a bar in bar chart

Creating a multiple measure crosstab

Enhance a crosstab using colors to create a highlight table

Transform Your Data with Calculations

How do calculations work in Tableau?

Using calculations in a join

How do table calculations work?

Direction in table calculations

What are level of detail (LOD) calculations?

Mapping Your Data

Just because you can, should you create a map?

How to create an area map

How to create a symbol map

Customizing the look of your maps

Create locations from coordinates

Analytics

Using colors to highlight data

How to create reference lines

How to create reference bands

How to use motion to show changes over time

Using Parameters for Greater Interaction

How are parameters different from filters?

How to use parameters in calculations

Create dynamic reference lines using parameters

Dashboard Actions and Design Tips

How to use containers in a dashboard

How to create a tiled dashboard

How to create a floating dashboard

How to create device-specific dashboards

How to use filter actions

How to use highlight actions

Conclusion

How can I grow my data science and Tableau skills?

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Faculty details

Matt Francis
Senior Software Developer at Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

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