Tableau Desktop: Blending & Managing Data Files


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Overview/Description

Once you have defined the data set that you want to use in your Tableau Desktop workbook, you can move on to building your visualizations [vizzes]. In this 11-video course, you will learn how to navigate within the Tableau workspace and use shelves, pages, and cards. Begin by discovering how the Tableau worksheets workspace is organized; then explore the purpose of shelves, cards, and marks when building vizzes in Tableau Desktop. Learn how to connect to multiple data sources and use the relationship tool to demonstrate automatic blending in Tableau, and how to implement manual blending, by manually editing and troubleshooting field relationship settings when blending data in Tableau Desktop. This leads into learning how to blend and work with geocoded data in Tableau, and create and manage worksheets in Tableau. Delve into saving data connections and sources in TDS format; work with packaged workbooks and sources; and work with Tableau bookmarks. The course concludes by demonstrating how to import worksheets, dashboards, and workbook contents into a file in Tableau Desktop.



Expected Duration (hours)
0.8

Lesson Objectives

Tableau Desktop: Blending & Managing Data Files

  • understand how the Tableau worksheet workspace is organized
  • describe the purpose of shelves, cards, and marks when building visualizations in Tableau Desktop
  • connect to multiple data sources and use the relationship tool to demonstrate automatic data blending in Tableau
  • manually edit and troubleshoot the field relationship settings when blending data in Tableau Desktop
  • work with custom geocode data to blend geographical data and import custom geocoding
  • create and customize worksheets in a Tableau workbook
  • use workbook views and control worksheet contents in Tableau Desktop
  • save Tableau workbooks and data sources using TWB and TDS formats
  • save a workbook and data extracts using the Tableau Packaged Workbook and Packaged Data Source formats
  • save a single worksheet as a Tableau Bookmark format and open the bookmark within a workbook
  • import worksheets, dashboards, and workbook contents into a file in Tableau Desktop
  • Course Number:
    ds_tbldsk_03_enus

    Expertise Level
    Intermediate