Learn Tableau and Ace the Tableau Desktop Specialist Exam

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Learn Tableau from scratch and ace the Tableau Desktop Specialist exam with two included full-length practice tests along with additional hands-on and theoretical quizzes available in the resources section.

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Create stunning visualizations and build dashboards that help you easily access and compare data
Showcase information by providing context and narratives using the story feature
Real exam-like …

Learn Tableau and Ace the Tableau Desktop Specialist Exam

Video description

About This Video

Create stunning visualizations and build dashboards that help you easily access and compare data
Showcase information by providing context and narratives using the story feature
Real exam-like questions for practice with a detailed explanation of hands-on questions

In Detail

Visualization provides us with a clearer understanding of data in a shorter span of time. It proves to be a powerful tool to make analyses and identify patterns. It also forms 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, you will learn about Tableau right from the very beginning, and work through the different capabilities of Tableau.

We will start by familiarizing ourselves with the software and understanding the basic concepts of Tableau. We will then move on to exploring and analyzing data. We will look at the various charts that can be used to present several types of data and we can use Tableau easily to create such visualizations. You will then learn how to effectively present these visualizations using dashboards and stories.

Finally, we will go over some exam tricks and tips that will help you prepare for the Tableau Specialist exam.

By the end of this course, you will have enough knowledge and confidence to pass the Tableau Desktop Specialist exam.

Who this book is for

This course acts as preparatory material for the Tableau Desktop Specialist exam. Anyone who wants to learn Tableau or already knows Tableau and clear the Tableau Desktop Specialist exam will find it beneficial. It is also helpful for anyone who wants to learn how to visualize data using Tableau.

No prior knowledge of Tableau is required for this course. The only thing expected is the willingness to learn.

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Chapter 1 : Introduction

Welcome to the Course

What will Be Covered

Tableau Introduction

Tableau Public Installation

Software Walkthrough

Chapter 2 : Understanding Tableau Concepts

Dimensions and Measures

Discrete and Continuous Fields

Aggregation and Granularity

Discrete Date Parts and Continuous Date Values

Ratio Calculations

Manage Data Properties

Chapter 3 : Exploring and Analyzing Data

Bar Charts, Line Charts, and Scatter Plots

Maps and Combined Axis Chart

Dual Axis and Stacked Bar

Create a Density Map

Crosstabs and Highlight Table

Organize Dimensions into a Hierarchy

Add filters and a Context Filter to a view

Add a Date Filter

Custom Dates

Create Groups Using Labels and Visual Groups

Create a Set

Computed and Manual Sorting

Reference and Trend Lines

Table Calculations - Problem Statement

Table Calculations - Concepts

Table Calculations - Scope and Direction

Table Calculations - Rank Calculation

Table Calculations - Percent Total

Create Calculated Fields

Add a Parameter

Use Bins and Histograms

Chapter 4 : Sharing Insights

Configure Fonts

Show and Hide Legends

Format View for Presentation

Use Viz Animations

Dashboards

Add Dashboard Actions

Create a Story Using Dashboards or Views

Share a TWBX as a PDF or an Image

Publish to Tableau Server

View and Export Underlying Data

Export to Microsoft PowerPoint

Chapter 5 : Connecting to and Preparing Data

Create a Live Connection to a Data Source

Create an Extract

Live Connections Versus Extracts

Save Metadata Properties in a TDS

Data Model

Understand Joins

Use Relationships Instead of Joins

Create a data source that uses multiple connections (Cross-Database Joins)

Relationships with Calculations

Data Blending

Use Relationships Instead of Blend

Summarize Relationships, Joins, Blends

Understand Unions

Exam Content Changes Overview

Chapter 6 : Hands-On Quiz to Test the Tableau Knowledge

Solutions

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