Course Curriculum:

1.  Introduction to Data Visualization with Tableau

Why is Data Visualization needed, How to make sense out of numbers, Uses of Tableau, Installation, Architecture, and Features of Tableau. 

2.  Basic Visualization Design

 Exporting Data, Connecting Sheets, Loading into Tableau visualization engine. Making sense out of the basic visualizations like Text Tables, Bar, Line, Pie charts, basic maps and interpreting the same.

3.  Visualizations Deep Dive

Highlight Tables, Heat Maps, Circle Plots, Side by Side Bars, Continues Lines, Scatter Plots, Dual Charts, Area Charts, Tree Maps.

4.  Data Organization and Scripting

Calculated Metrics, Sorting, Filtering, Totals and Sub Totals, Various Aggregated Measures, Percentages, Data Spotlighting, Summary Card. Date and time functions, String Functions and logical functions, Data Items, Data behind your views, Hierarchies, Sets, Groups, Bins.

5.  The World is Your Visualization

 Dual Charts, Dual Axis, Combination charts, Gantt Charts for activity tracking, Motion Charts, Box and Whisker Plots, Reference Lines, Reference Bands, Pareto Analysis, Water Fall Charts, Market Basket Analysis.

6.  Playing with Time Dimension

Quick Table Calculations, Custom Table Calculations, YTD, Parallel Period, Moving Averages, Running totals, Window Averages, Trend Lines and Predictive Models.

7.  What is Your Location?

Filled Maps, Symbol Maps, Geo Coding, Online Maps, Sorting in Maps, Background Maps.

8.  Incremental Loading and Blending

Data Blending from multiple source systems, Custom SQL Queries, Creating Incremental Loads, Creating File Extractions, Parameters.

9.  Integrating Tableau with R and Hadoop

Connect to Hadoop Systems from Tableau, Integrating Tableau with R, Connecting to R Serve Parameterized R calls, Mean, Median, Mode, Standard Deviation, Forecasting Models, Adding YouTube videos.

10.  Sharing Insights with Enterprise Dashboards

Interactive Dashboards, Action Filters, Story Boards, Best Practices, Cover Pages, Annotations, Tool Tips, keyboard short cuts, Legends, Sharing your work, Deploying to server, Tableau Online, Tableau Reader, Tableau Public.