Introduction to Tableau Data Camp

Overview

Context

Tableau is a widely used BI and analytics software trusted by companies like Amazon and Unilever to explore, create, and securely share contextualized data. In this Introduction to Tableau course offered by Data Camp, you will learn how to build data visualizations, conduct data analyses and adopt best practices of data formatting with Tableau.

Discover what Tableau is Used for and How to Visualize Data

With its user-friendly drag-and-drop functionality, Tableau can be used by everyone to quickly clean, analyze, and visualize your team’s data. This course can show you how. You’ll begin the course by understanding Tableau’s fundamental concepts and features, such as how to load data and workbooks and understanding the interface. You will then create your first visualization with Tableau using an Airbnb dataset.

Build your Own Tableau Dashboard

The final chapters explore best practices for formatting and presenting your data with Tableau, including creating a dual-axis graph, understanding the differences between a worksheet, dashboard, and story, and finally, creating your very first Tableau dashboard. By the end of this course, you’ll have the skills you need to confidently explore Tableau and build impactful data dashboards. Check out our Tableau Fundamentals track to further develop your Tableau skills.

What you'll learn:

• Identify how to build and customize basic visualizations in Tableau
• Identify how to improve Tableau visualizations with trendline, range, smoothing, forecast and formatting
• Determine when to use calculated fields to support analysis within Tableau
• Assess how to create and manage Tableau dashboards and recognize effective approaches for presenting results
• Distinguish between Tableau’s data import and export options and recognize how to manipulate and prepare data within Tableau