Course: Tableau for Data Visualization

Tableau is a data visualization tool suitable for a variety of purposes and situations. Knowing the basics of this tool will help you share necessary data with stakeholders and peers in a meaningful and engaging way. This course will introduce you to Tableau's basic features and cover the fundamental operations performed with this tool.

You'll start by loading data into Tableau using a variety of file types. You'll then apply transformations to your data and choose the most appropriate visualization for it. Next, you'll learn how to analyze data in multiple related tables as well as data categories. You'll then practice setting the aesthetics of charts and garnering detailed information through chart interactions. Lastly, you'll get hands-on with the Tableau data interpreter to clean a dataset.

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.

In addition to everything you'd expect from a data visualization tool, Tableau has extensive support for many advanced visual customization and user interaction features. This course gives you a taster of how these features work.

You'll start by using Tableau maps to render country-specific information and then further customize these maps, rendering their appearance and using map layers. You'll then assemble multiple charts together to collectively convey information using dashboards.

Next, you'll learn how to change the aesthetic appearance of Tableau dashboards and update them to include charts and other interactive objects and settings, such as navigation buttons, text labels, and download options. Lastly, you'll learn how to share a story publicly in the form of visualizations comprising charts and a dashboard using Tableau's publish feature.