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Introduction

• Setting up Tableau
• Overview of Tableau Software
• Navigating the Tableau User Interface

Connecting to your data

• Available data connections
• Simplifying and preparing data
• Joining database sources
• Inner, outer, left, and right join
• Blending different data sources in a single worksheet

Working with Data in Tableau

• Using multiple measures in a view
• Showing the relationship between numerical values
• Viewing specific values
• Customizing your data
• Dimension vs. Measure
• Data types, discrete versus continuous, for measure

Creating calculations in Tableau

• Row-level calculations
• Aggregate calculations
• Numeric, string, and date calculations
• Custom aggregations and calculated fields
• Quick table calculations
• Working with dates and times

Analyzing Data with Table Calculations

• Quick table calculations
• Scope and direction
• Addressing and partitioning

Organizing, Filtering, Sorting & Grouping

• Organizing your data
• Slicing your data by date
• Simplifying and sorting your data
• Advanced options for filtering and hiding
• Understanding many options for ordering and grouping your data
• Sort, Groups, Bins, Sets

Parameters in Tableau

• Creating parameters
• Parameters in calculated fields
• Parameter control options
• Enhancing analysis and visualizations with parameters

Building Basic and Advanced Visualizations

• Cross tabs
• Geographic maps, heat maps, and tree maps
• Pie charts and bar charts
• Date and time visualizations
• Stacked bars and area charts
• KPI charts
• Dual axis and combined charts with different mark types
• Highlight tables
• Scatter Plots

Advanced formatting

• Labels
• Legends
• Tooltips
• Highlighting data with reference lines
• Annotations

Telling a Data Story with Dashboards

• Dashboard framework
• Filter actions
• Parameters
• Highlight actions
• URL actions

Trends and Forecasting

• Understanding and customizing trend lines
• Distributions
• Forecasting

Sharing your work

• Publishing the dashboard
• Working with extracts instead of live connections
• Metadata and sharing a connection

Summary and Next Steps:

• Knowledge test and hands-on project at the end of the course
• Helpful resources for further learning