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Tableau: Mastering Calculations 

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Tableau: Mastering Calculations
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Overview

Empower Insights: Unleash Tableau's Calculative Might for Mastery

Duration

3 hours

Mode of learning

Online

Difficulty level

Intermediate

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Credential

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Tableau: Mastering Calculations
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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: Mastering Calculations
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Linkedin Learning 
Course details

Who should do this course?
  • Data analysts seeking to enhance their proficiency in Tableau for advanced data manipulation and analysis
What are the course deliverables?
  • Develop expertise in Tableau calculations for advanced data manipulation and analysis
  • Gain proficiency in creating complex calculated fields to derive insightful metrics and KPIs
  • Master the use of Tableau functions to solve diverse analytical challenges efficiently
  • Learn to leverage Tableau's calculation features to enhance visualization and storytelling capabilities
More about this course
  • Tableau is a powerful tool for visual data analytics. While its intuitive drag-and-drop interface enables you to easily analyze data, unlocking its full capabilities requires you to take a deeper dive into its calculation functions
  • This course guides you through the different types of calculations, explains many different functions, and demonstrates how to use them via a host of everyday business examples
  • Instructor Heidi Kalbe covers a broad range of calculation foundations, describing the different kinds of calculations as well as the differences in data types, and explains several functions per calculation type through simple business example use cases

Tableau: Mastering Calculations
 at 
Linkedin Learning 
Curriculum

Foundations of Tableau Calculations

Preparing your work in Tableau

Data types in Tableau

Creating calculations

Row-Level Calculations

What does row-level mean?

Cropping and searching strings

Splitting and replacing strings

Aggregated Calculations

Why aggregate?

Sum and average

Minimum and maximum

Numerical Calculations

Arithmetic operators

Pitfall: Calculating weighted ratios

Calculating absolute values and signs

Logical Calculations

Logical operators

Logical calculations: To aggregate or not to aggregate?

If-Then-Else logic

Table Calculations

What are table calculations?

Running total

Absolute and relative differences

Level of Detail Calculations

When do I need LOD calculations?

Syntax of LOD calculations

EXCLUDE LOD calculations

Conclusion

Continuing on with Tableau

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Tableau: Mastering Calculations
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Linkedin Learning 
Faculty details

Heidi Kalbe
Tableau Ambassador and Visual Data Analytics Expert

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