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Advanced Tableau

4.6 out of 5 rating Last updated 01/12/2024   English

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Duration

2.5 Days

15 CPD hours

Overview

The goal of this course is to present essential Tableau concepts and its advanced functionalities to help better prepare and analyze data.

 

Description

This course will use Tableau Hyper, Tableau Prep and more.

Getting Up to Speed a Review of the Basics
  • Connecting Tableau to your data
  • Connecting to Tableau Server
  • Connecting to saved data sources
  • Measure Names and Measure Values
  • Three essential Tableau concepts
  • Exporting data to other devices
  • Summary
All About Data Getting Your Data Ready
  • Data mining and knowledge discovery process models CRISPDM
All About Data Joins, Blends, and Data Structures
  • All About Data - Joins, Blends, and Data Structures
  • Introduction to joins
  • Introduction to complex joins
  • Exercise: observing join culling
  • Introduction to join calculations
  • Introduction to spatial joins
  • Introduction to unions
  • Understanding data blending
  • Order of operations
  • No dimensions from a secondary source
  • Introduction to scaffolding
  • Introduction to data structures
  • Exercise: adjusting the data structure for different questions
  • Summary
Table Calculations
  • Table Calculations
  • A definition and two questions
  • Introduction to functions
  • Directional and non-directional table calculations
  • Application of functions
  • Summary
Level of Detail Calculations
  • Level of Detail Calculations
  • Building playgrounds
  • Playground I: FIXED and EXCLUDE
  • Playground II: INCLUDE
  • Practical application
  • Exercise: practical FIXED
  • Exercise: practical INCLUDE
  • Exercise: practical EXCLUDE
  • Summary
Beyond the Basic Chart Types
  • Beyond the Basic Chart Types
  • Improving popular visualizations
  • Custom background images
  • Tableau extensions
  • Summary
Mapping
  • Mapping
  • Extending Tableau's mapping capabilities without leaving Tableau
  • Extending Tableau mapping with other technology
  • Exercise: connecting to a WMS server
  • Exploring the TMS file
  • Exploring Mapbox
  • Accessing different maps with a dashboard
  • Creating custom polygons
  • Converting shape files for Tableau
  • Exercise: polygons for Texas
  • Heatmaps
  • Summary
Tableau for Presentations
  • Tableau for Presentations
  • Getting the best images out of Tableau
  • From Tableau to PowerPoint
  • Embedding Tableau in PowerPoint
  • Animating Tableau
  • Story points and dashboards for Presentations
  • Summary
Visualization Best Practices and Dashboard Design
  • Visualization Best Practices and Dashboard Design
  • Visualization design theory
  • Formatting rules
  • Color rules
  • Visualization type rules
  • Compromises
  • Keeping visualizations simple
  • Dashboard design
  • Dashboard layout
  • Sheet selection
  • Summary
Advanced Analytics
  • Advanced Analytics
  • Self-service Analytics
  • Use case Self-service Analytics
  • Use case Geo-spatial Analytics
  • Summary
Improving Performance
  • Improving Performance
  • Understanding the performance-recording dashboard
  • Exercise: exploring performance recording in Tableau desktop
  • Performance-recording dashboard events
  • Behind the scenes of the performance- recording dashboard
  • Hardware and on-the-fly techniques
  • Hardware considerations
  • On-the-fly-techniques
  • Single Data Source > Joining > Blending
  • Three ways Tableau connects to data
  • Using referential integrity when joining
  • Advantages of blending
  • Efficiently working with data sources
  • Tuning data sources
  • Working efficiently with large data sources
  • Intelligent extracts
  • Understanding the Tableau data extract
  • Constructing an extract for optimal performance
  • Exercise: summary aggregates for improved performance
  • Optimizing extracts
  • Exercise: materialized calculations
  • Using filters wisely
  • Extract filter performance
  • Data source filter performance
  • Context filters
  • Dimension and measure filters
  • Table-calculation filters
  • Efficient calculations
  • Boolean/Numbers > Date > String
  • Additional performance considerations
  • Avoid overcrowding a dashboard
  • Fixing dashboard sizing
  • Setting expectations
  • Summary
Additional course details:

Nexus Humans Advanced Tableau training program is a workshop that presents an invigorating mix of sessions, lessons, and masterclasses meticulously crafted to propel your learning expedition forward.

This immersive bootcamp-style experience boasts interactive lectures, hands-on labs, and collaborative hackathons, all strategically designed to fortify fundamental concepts.

Guided by seasoned coaches, each session offers priceless insights and practical skills crucial for honing your expertise. Whether you're stepping into the realm of professional skills or a seasoned professional, this comprehensive course ensures you're equipped with the knowledge and prowess necessary for success.

While we feel this is the best course for the Advanced Tableau course and one of our Top 10 we encourage you to read the course outline to make sure it is the right content for you.

Additionally, private sessions, closed classes or dedicated events are available both live online and at our training centres in Dublin and London, as well as at your offices anywhere in the UK, Ireland or across EMEA.

FAQ for the Advanced Tableau Course

Available Delivery Options for the Advanced Tableau training.
  • Live Instructor Led Classroom Online (Live Online)
  • Traditional Instructor Led Classroom (TILT/ILT)
  • Delivery at your offices in London or anywhere in the UK
  • Private dedicated course as works for your staff.
How many CPD hours does the Advanced Tableau training provide?

The 2.5 day. Advanced Tableau training course give you up to 15 CPD hours/structured learning hours. If you need a letter or certificate in a particular format for your association, organisation or professional body please just ask.

What is the correct audience for the Advanced Tableau training?

This course is intended for those with a basic understanding of Tableau who want to pursue mastery of the advanced features.

 

Do you provide training for the Advanced Tableau.

Yes we provide corporate training, dedicated training and closed classes for the Advanced Tableau. This can take place anywhere in UK including, England, Scotland, Cymru (Wales) or Northern Ireland or live online allowing you to have your teams from across UK or further afield to attend a single training event saving travel and delivery expenses.

What is the duration of the Advanced Tableau program.

The Advanced Tableau training takes place over 2.5 day(s), with each day lasting approximately 8 hours including small and lunch breaks to ensure that the delegates get the most out of the day.

Why are Nexus Human the best provider for the Advanced Tableau?
Nexus Human are recognised as one of the best training companies as they and their trainers have won and hold many awards and titles including having previously won the Small Firms Best Trainer award, national training partner of the year for UK on multiple occasions, having trainers in the global top 30 instructor awards in 2012, 2019 and 2021. Nexus Human has also been nominated for the Tech Excellence awards multiple times. Learning Performance institute (LPI) external training provider sponsor 2024.
Is there a discount code for the Advanced Tableau training.

Yes, the discount code PENPAL5 is currently available for the Advanced Tableau training. Other discount codes may also be available but only one discount code or special offer can be used for each booking. This discount code is available for companies and individuals.

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Training Insurance Included!

When you organise training, we understand that there is a risk that some people may fall ill, become unavailable. To mitigate the risk we include training insurance for each delegate enrolled on our public schedule, they are welcome to sit on the same Public class within 6 months at no charge, if the case arises.

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