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Overview

Tableau is a powerful data visualization tool, with many uses in business

Duration

2 hours

Total fee

1,150

Mode of learning

Online

Difficulty level

Intermediate

Credential

Certificate

Using Tableau to Discover Powerful Business Insights
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Highlights

  • Earn a certificate of completion from LinkedIn Learning
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Using Tableau to Discover Powerful Business Insights
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Course details

Skills you will learn
More about this course
  • In this course, data analytics expert John David Ariansen shows you how to use Tableau effectively for uncovering powerful data insights
  • He shares how to connect to data in Tableau, by connecting live or extracting the data sources
  • John David goes into how to manipulate data in Tableau to build visualizations
  • He covers each type of visualization and how each type is built
  • He explains several concepts in Tableau, such as dimensions and measures, differences between discrete and continuous, aggregations, and timeliness
  • The course ends with a great list of forums and resources where you can continue your learning journey

Using Tableau to Discover Powerful Business Insights
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Curriculum

Introduction

Using Tableau to create business insights

Introduction to Tableau

What is Tableau?

How can you use Tableau effectively for business?

Excel vs. Tableau

What is data visualization?

Four main functions of Tableau

Basic Tableau terminology

Connecting to Data

Data connection screen

Types of data to connect to

Live vs. extracted data sources

Defining joins, unions, and data blending

Creating joins, unions, and data blending

Changing field types

Creating an alias

Default formatting

Case study: Part 1

Exploring Data and Building Visualizations

Interface overview

Building visualizations

Creating calculated fields

Groups

Sets

Table calculations

Sorting

Filters

Histogram and bins

Analytics pane overview

Scatter plot and clustering

Case study: Part 2

Sharing Insights

Dashboard interface overview

Basic dashboarding

Interactive elements

Tiled vs. floating objects

Creating stories

Case study: Part 3

Tableau Concepts

Dimension vs. measure

Discrete vs. continuous

Aggregation

Timeliness

Visual analytics best practices

Forums

Your path forward

Sharing your Tableau portfolio

Reddit

Forums

YouTube

Conclusion

Next steps

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Using Tableau to Discover Powerful Business Insights
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Faculty details

John David Ariansen
Analytics isn’t about crunching huge sets of data in a dimly lit back room, it’s about understanding the crossroads of people, business and data.

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