This is the code repository for Mastering Tableau 2018.1, Second Edition [Video], published by Packt. It contains all the supporting project files necessary to work through the video course from start to finish.
Tableau has brought the world of visual analytics within the reach of many nonplussed by Excel charts and graphs. But after acquiring the basic skills, there is a learning curve that gets in the way of using Tableau to its full potential.
This course will give you the tools to use Tableau to its fullest and make optimal business decisions with rich analytics. If you want to be more feature-ready to use Tableau and perform effective data visualizations and analysis, then this course is for you. After taking this course, you will be confident enough to use advanced Tableau features and other tools. You will develop the skills to perform in-depth analyses for effective business decision making. Your skills will no longer be at an intermediate level; you will now be a master of data analysis using Tableau. You will be able to connect to data sources; summarize data; and create, manipulate, and share data visualizations including highlight tables, charts, scatter-plots, histograms, maps, dashboards, and more.
By the end of this course, you will be able to build useful, thoughtful, and beautiful visualizations that will help you make databases and spreadsheets understandable to ordinary people.
- Build advanced chart types into your visualizations
- Apply advanced calculations for further insights into data
- Use spatial data to build maps based on custom geocodes
- Pull multiple data sources into Tableau using joins
- Explore the use of sets to analyze a subset of data
- Build advanced analysis that leverages statistics and other analytic tools
- Format your work by incorporating visualization best practices
- Build dashboards and stories that can be shared with external audiences
To fully benefit from the coverage included in this course, you will need:
This course is designed and developed for a different learning experience, start from beginner level and we will explore essential advanced features.
• This course is for anyone who has beginner level understanding over a desktop application and wants to take expertise to the next level
• An understanding of Tableau product family
• (Optional) Experience with data exploration
This course has the following software requirements:
● Tableau Desktop application (version 2018.1)
This course has been tested on the following system configuration:
● OS: Windows 7
● Processor: Core I 2.4 Ghz
● Memory: 8GB
● Hard Disk Space: 500MB