Online Training for CPT/OPT in Tableau

Online Training for CPT/OPT in Tableau


Tableu Online Training

Course Duration: 30 hours of teaching and variable amount of additional time as per the learning abilities of each student.

Tableau Course Description

This course is designed for the beginner to intermediate-level Tableau user. It is for anyone who works with data regardless of technical or analytical background. This course is designed to help you understand the important concepts and techniques used in Tableau to move from simple to complex visualizations and learn how to combine them in interactive dashboards.

Course Objective Summary

‚ Understand Tableau Interface and architecture

‚ Options for connecting to data

‚ Basic calculations including string manipulation, arithmetic calculations, custom Aggregations and ratios, date math, logic statements and quick table calculations.

‚ How to deal with data changes in your data source such as field addition, deletion or Name change

‚ Able to represent your data using the following visualization types:

‚ Cross Tab

‚ Geographic Map

‚ Page Trails

‚ Heat Map

‚ Density Chart

‚ Scatter Plots

‚ Pie Chart and Bar Charts

‚ Small Multiples

‚ Dual Axis and Combo Charts with different mark types

‚ Options for drill down and drill across

‚ Trend Lines, Reference Lines to describe your data

‚ How to use group, bin, hierarchy, sort, set and filter options effectively

‚ Fine tune the presentation of your visualizations

‚ Share your visualizations

Course Content

1. Overview

‚ Why Tableau

‚ Getting Started ‚œ creating some powerful visualizations quickly

‚ The Tableau Product Line

‚ Things you should know about Tableau

2. Getting Started

‚ Introduction to Architecture

‚ Connecting to Data and introduction to data source concepts

‚ Understanding the Tableau workspace

‚ Dimensions and Measures

‚ Data Types and properties

‚ Using Show Me!

‚ Date aggregations and date parts

‚ Sample Views (Show me options)

‚ Working with aggregate versus disaggregate data

‚ Sorting

‚ Aliases

‚ Saving Workbooks (twb, twbx etc)

3. Analysis

‚ Creating Views

‚ Marks, Size and transparency

‚ Working With Dates:

Date aggregations and date parts

Discrete versus Continuous

Dual Axis / Multiple Measures

Heat Map

Pie Charts and Bar Charts

Page Trails

Geographic Map

‚ Data Analyzing:

Sorting & Grouping

Aliases

Filtering and Quick Filters

Cross-Tabs (Pivot Tables)

Totals and Subtotals

Drilling and Drill Through

Aggregation and Disaggregation

4. Getting Started with Calculated Fields

‚ Calculated Fields

‚ Working with String Functions

‚ Basic Arithmetic Calculations

‚ Date Math

‚ Working with

‚ Totals Custom Aggregations

‚ Logic Statements

‚ Formatting

Options in Formatting your Visualization

Working with Labels and Annotations

Effective Use of Titles and Captions

Introduction to Visual Best Practices

‚ Building Dashboards

Combining multiple visualizations into a dashboard

Making your worksheet interactive by using actions and filters

Best Practices in Visualization

‚ Sharing Workbooks:

Publish to Reader/Server/PDF



At the end of course each student will be provided with access to tools to be successful at workplace.