Tableau for Data Visualization: Exploring Visualizations & Data Formats


Overview/Description
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
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Expertise Level



Overview/Description

Tableau not only has a variety of tools to visualize data, but it also allows you to redefine the fields in your data to convey rich meaning. In this course, you'll explore how multiple dimensions of the underlying data can be portrayed using shapes, colors, and labels.

You'll learn to build a wide variety of charts, such as pie charts, treemaps, and many more, to convey various information types. You'll also work with different techniques, such as hierarchical, combined, and calculated fields, to arrange the fields in the underlying dataset into hierarchies and groups, portraying relationships and facilitating data drill-downs for your users.

Lastly, you'll learn how you can generate sets from combined data, so this data can be analyzed with the context of the set, as well as outside it.



Expected Duration (hours)
1.5

Lesson Objectives

Tableau for Data Visualization: Exploring Visualizations & Data Formats

  • discover the key concepts covered in this course
  • enrich your visualizations by conveying additional information using text
  • convey information from multiple fields in your dataset using a variety of markers
  • portray different characteristics of your data by using a variety of charts available in Tableau
  • plot the changes in your data over time by using the Pages feature
  • enable users to drill down in your visualizations by arranging related fields in a hierarchy
  • recognize the different ways in which hierarchy definitions could lead to incorrect visualizations
  • analyze your data at a higher level and drill down to a lower level based on a date field
  • gather together related elements in your visualizations using groups
  • create a table which analyzes sales data along 3 different dimensions
  • flatten a multi-dimensional table using a combined field
  • define a field in your dataset which is based on a calculation performed on an existing field
  • combine related data points into a set to analyze data within and outside the set
  • summarize the key concepts covered in this course
  • Course Number:
    it_datadvdj_02_enus

    Expertise Level
    Beginner