The Complete Tableau Bootcamp for Aspiring Data Scientists

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Learn to create stunning visualizations without writing code

About This Video

Detailed step-by-step walkthrough of creating data visualizations
Create dashboards and stories in Tableau
Define the granularity of data using the Level of Detail feature

In Detail

Visualizations provide us with a clearer understanding of data in a shorter span of time. They prove to be a powerful tool to make analyses and identify patterns. …

The Complete Tableau Bootcamp for Aspiring Data Scientists

Video description

Learn to create stunning visualizations without writing code

About This Video

Detailed step-by-step walkthrough of creating data visualizations
Create dashboards and stories in Tableau
Define the granularity of data using the Level of Detail feature

In Detail

Visualizations provide us with a clearer understanding of data in a shorter span of time. They prove to be a powerful tool to make analyses and identify patterns. They also form an integral part of data storytelling by helping in creating narratives.

Tableau's remarkable visualization capabilities make it a popular choice for data visualization. In this course, we will understand the capabilities of Tableau that makes it a popular software. Discover the basic tableau concepts and go over some basic charts that can be created easily using Tableau. We will then go over how we can create dashboards and stories to present contextual information of the data.

Finally, we will learn some advanced features in Tableau, such as data modelling, controlling the granularity of the visualizations, and performing table calculations. By the end of the course, you will be able to use Tableau effectively and will be able to create sophisticated visualizations easily.

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Chapter 1 : Getting Started with Tableau

Welcome to the Course

What will be Cover in the Course

Course Recourses

Tableau Introduction

Different Tableau Products

Software Installation

Software Walkthrough (Tableau Desktop Public Edition)

Download Files from Tableau Public

Chapter 2 : Tableau Desktop Professional Edition

Section Introduction

Software Installation

Software Walkthrough (Tableau Desktop)

Create Live and Extract Connection

Live Versus Extract Connection Type

Tableau Reader, TWBX Versus TWB Files

Chapter 3 : Tableau Core Concepts

Dimensions and Measures

Update Data Types

Discrete and Continuous Fields

Aggregation and Granularity

Discrete Date Parts and Continuous Date Values

Calculated Fields

Logical Expressions

Ratio Calculations

Chapter 4 : Chart Types

Bar Chart and Stacked Bar Chart

Line Chart

Hands-On Exercise

Solution

Sorting - Computed and Manual

Filters - Dimension and Measure

Reference Line and Trend Line

Scatter Plot

Hierarchies

Cross Tabs and Highlight Tables

Heat Maps

Symbol Maps

Filled Maps

Context Filters

Histograms

Chapter 5 : More Chart Types

Pie Charts

Tree Maps, Word Cloud, Packed Bubbles

Viz in Tooltip

Dual Axis

Lollipop Chart

Add Custom Shapes

Animations

Show Me

Date Filters

Groups and Visual Groups

Sets

Parameters

Chapter 6 : Dashboard and Stories

Hands-On Exercises (Profit Analysis)

Solutions (Profit Analysis)

Hands-On Exercises (Sales Analysis)

Solutions (Sales Analysis)

Dashboard Introduction

Create A Profit Analysis Dashboard

Add Actions for Interactivity

Create Sales Analysis Dashboard

Hands-On Exercise (Add Actions)

Solution (Add Actions)

Use Dashboard Objects (Navigation and Download)

Create Course Comparison Dashboard (Embed YouTube URL in Dashboard)

Creating a Tableau Story

Formatting a Story

Chapter 7 : Understand Table Calculations

Create Custom Dates

Table Calculations - Problem Statement

Table Calculations - Concepts

Table Calculations - Scope and Direction

Table Calculations - Rank Calculation

Table Calculations - Percent Total

Chapter 8 : Level of Detail Expressions

Level of Details (LOD) Introduction

Fixed - LOD

Fixed LOD - Cohort Analysis

Include - LOD

Exclude - LOD

Exclude LOD - Another Example

Hands-On Exercise

Solution

Chapter 9 : Data Preparation (Introducing Relationships)

Data Model

Understand Joins

Use Relationships Instead of Joins

Cross-Database Joins

Relationships with Calculations

Data Blending

Use Relationships Instead of Blend

Summarize Relationships, Joins, and Blends

Understand Unions

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