The Tableau 2018 Comprehensive Guide

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Which Tableau Product to Choose

Lecture 2: Getting Help

Lecture 3: The Tableau Interface – A Quick Walkthrough

Chapter 2: Demo Project

Lecture 1: Selling Lures – The Story Behind Our First Project

Lecture 2: Your First Steps – Connecting to a Database & Building Your First Visualization

Lecture 3: The Show Me Tool – Picking a Suitable Chart Type

Lecture 4: Customization – Highlighting and Annotating Data Points

Lecture 5: Saving Workbooks – Workbook Types

Chapter 3: The Core of Tableau

Lecture 1: Aggregations – How is Your Data Processed Behind the Scenes?

Lecture 2: Calculated Fields – Custom Calculations in Tableau

Lecture 3: Note for Tableau Public users

Lecture 4: Filters – Ways to Search for Relevant Data

Lecture 5: Parameters – Make Your Graphs Interactive

Lecture 6: Exercise – Creating a 'TopN' Filter

Lecture 7: Table Calculations – How Do They Work in Theory?

Lecture 8: Table Calculations in Action

Lecture 9: Exercise – Ranking Products

Chapter 4: Working with Time Series Data in Tableau

Lecture 1: Time Series Data – Introduction to Data Roles

Lecture 2: Percent Difference – Representing Change in Values Over a Period of Time

Lecture 3: Moving Average – Create a Smoother Using Tableau's Interface

Lecture 4: Moving Average – Create a Smoother Using Custom Code

Lecture 5: Exercise – Defining a Time Frame for a Moving Average Calculation

Lecture 6: Creating a Forecasting Line

Lecture 7: Tableau's Integrated Forecasting Tool

Lecture 8: The Discrete Data Role

Lecture 9: Exercise – Year on Year Difference

Lecture 10: Monitoring Data – Relative Date Filtering

Lecture 11: Date Functions – A Summary

Lecture 12: Latest Order – Another Case of Relative Date Filtering

Lecture 13: Exercise – Combined Bars and Line Chart

Chapter 5: Small Things That Make Your Life Easier with Tableau

Lecture 1: Custom Hierarchies – Data Structuring in Tableau

Lecture 2: Groups – Data Structuring in Tableau

Lecture 3: Manual and Dynamic Sets – Data Structuring in Tableau

Lecture 4: Logical Statements – IF, IIF, CASE and Logical Operators

Lecture 5: How to Resolve a Common Error Message – Aggregation: Attribute

Lecture 6: Added Lines – Reference Line, Trend Lines, Drop Lines

Lecture 7: Show More Data – Labels, Tooltips, Cards and Highlighters

Chapter 6: Scatterplots

Lecture 1: Scatterplot – The Basics

Lecture 2: Add More Dimensions to Your Scatterplot

Lecture 3: Exercise – Dynamic Scatterplot

Lecture 4: Showing a Correlation Over Time – Animated Scatterplot

Lecture 5: Detecting Outliers – Circle View with Box Plots

Chapter 7: Maps in Tableau

Lecture 1: Tableau's Map Service – How to Create Maps in Tableau

Lecture 2: Dual Axis Map – Merge Symbol and Filled Maps

Lecture 3: Maps and Paths – Show Directions of Movement and Their Volume

Lecture 4: Custom Maps – Use Any Background for Maps

Lecture 5: Animated Map

Chapter 8: Reshaping, Joining and Data Blending

Lecture 1: Data Preparation – Get Your Data in Shape

Lecture 2: String Calculations – Splitting and Concatenating Strings

Lecture 3: Joins – Create a Row Level Connection Between Two Tables

Lecture 4: Data Blending – Connecting Data From Different Data Sources

Lecture 5: Calculations in a Blend

Lecture 6: Union – Extend Tables with Extra Rows

Lecture 7: Tableau File Types – Sharing Your Analysis

Chapter 9: Further Chart Types

Lecture 1: Histogram – Show the Distribution of Your Observations

Lecture 2: Modern Proportional Chart Types – Treemap and Packed Bubble Chart

Lecture 3: The Bump Chart – Show a Ranking Over Time

Lecture 4: The Gantt Chart – Time Management with Tableau

Lecture 5: The Gantt Chart – Daily Schedules

Lecture 6: Custom Waterfall Chart – Another Usage of the Gantt Chart

Lecture 7: Bullet Graphs – Compare Performance vs. Target

Lecture 8: The Lollipop Chart

Lecture 9: Wordcloud

Chapter 10: Dashboards and Presentation

Lecture 1: Introduction to Dashboards

Lecture 2: What Makes a Dashboard Great – Principles of Creating Effective Dashboards

Lecture 3: Actions – An Alternative Tool for Filtering and Highlighting

Lecture 4: Swapping Charts

Lecture 5: Presentation

Chapter 11: Level of Detail Expressions – LOD calcs

Lecture 1: What Are Level of Detail Expressions About?

Lecture 2: The Syntax of LOD Expressions

Lecture 3: The INCLUDE Keyword

Lecture 4: The EXCLUDE Keyword

Lecture 5: The FIXED Keyword

Lecture 6: Exercise: Calculating the Difference Between to LODs

Lecture 7: Comparing the Results of LOD Expressions

Lecture 8: LOD Expressions and Filters

Chapter 12: What's New in Tableau?

Lecture 1: How to Put a Visualization into a Tooltip?

Lecture 2: Viz in Tooltip Use Cases

Lecture 3: New Line Types: How to Best Use Jump and Step Lines

Lecture 4: Cluster Analysis

Lecture 5: Minor Updates to Version 2018.1

Chapter 13: Extra Section – Chart Guide

Lecture 1: Before You Begin… Planning and Asking Fundamental Questions

Lecture 2: Proportional Chart Types

Lecture 3: Charts for Data Comparison