Learn to create dynamic visualizations that unlock the power of Tableau to clearly communicate complex analytical insights and begin the journey to becoming a Tableau expert.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Grow your data analytics toolkit in Tableau
- What skill level is required
- Use a scatter plot to visualize a distribution
- Highlight dimensions values and use Pages
- Parameterize data selections
- Use the Analytics pane
- Pivot processing and plotting aggregated data
- Overlay scatter plots from multiple data sources
- Challenge: Use advanced analytics
- Solution: Use advanced analytics
- Make a waterfall chart and add subgroup calculations
- Combine dual-axis functionality and LOD calculations
- Challenge: Make your own dual-axis chart with an LOD calculation
- Solution: Make your own dual-axis chart with an LOD calculation
- Dynamic calculations using date parameters
- Use DATEDIFF to operate multiple calculations from the same parameter
- Synchronize time axes using DATEADD
- Parameterize the date interval on an axis using DATETRUNC
- Use string parameters to communicate the methodology of a calculation
- Challenge: Adjust parameters
- Solution: Adjust parameters
- Use Mark Layers to create maps from multiple data sources
- Add custom shapes and explore Marks Layers options
- Create custom geographic layers
- Control background map layers
- Add calculations to customized geographic layers
- Change the geography used for marks layer calculation
- Maps on dashboards as user-controlled filters for analytics
- Challenge: Create a pie chart analysis on a map
- Solution: Create a pie chart analysis on a map
- Continue your Tableau journey
Taught by
George Lynch