Complete Guide to Tableau for Data Scientists
With Matt Francis
Liked by 78 users
Duration: 10h 29m
Skill level: Intermediate
Released: 9/27/2024
Course details
If your work requires any sort of graphical visualization of data, chances are you’ve run into Tableau. If you’ve been using Tableau but want to learn how to really harness its full power for data science, join expert Matt Francis in this course as he shows you how to take your skills to the next level. Matt starts with one of the most important features in Tableau: the difference between the green and blue pills (discrete and continuous data) and how this affects every single action Tableau performs. He then shows how to connect to and combine data from different data sources, how to create different charts to make sense of data, ways to transform your data with calculations, and how to create interactive maps. Finally, Matt details ways to present data effectively and how to make engaging dashboards. Whether you want to learn more about Tableau as a whole, or if you just want to improve your knowledge of a single subject, this course will help up your Tableau game.
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Contents
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Understand the difference between green and blue fields6m 37s
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How do green and blue fields affect rows and columns?5m 59s
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How do green and blue fields affect filters?5m 29s
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How do green and blue fields affect colors?6m 33s
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How do green and blue fields affect dates?6m 25s
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Challenge: Green and blue46s
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Solution: Green and blue3m 20s
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How to connect to Excel sheets5m 17s
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How to clean Excel data with the Data Interpreter4m 17s
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How to connect to Google Sheets6m 1s
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How to connect to PDF files and extract tables of data6m 26s
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Setting up the default properties of your data source5m 27s
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Saving your data sources for future use4m 46s
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Challenge: Creating a data source1m 18s
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Solution: Creating a data source6m 42s
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Combining data using relationships4m 2s
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What are the different ways of joining data?6m 58s
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How to join tables in the same data connection6m 39s
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How to join tables in two using a cross database join5m 22s
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How to append one data source to another using unions6m 51s
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Challenge: Combining data, part 157s
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Solution: Combining data, part 19m 21s
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Challenge: Combining data, part 242s
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Solution: Combining data, part 27m 35s
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What are measure names and measure values?5m 26s
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Creating a combined axis chart6m 41s
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Creating a dual axis chart7m 11s
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Creating a bar-in-bar chart6m 23s
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Creating a multiple measure crosstab3m 53s
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Comparing two measures using a scatter plot4m 30s
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Challenge: Comparing measures, part 11m
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Solution: Comparing measures, part 19m 12s
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Challenge: Comparing measures, part 259s
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Solution: Comparing measures, part 26m 16s
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How do calculations work in Tableau?7m 35s
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Understanding the order of operations in calculation6m 39s
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Manipulating strings using string functions8m 14s
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Manipulating dates with date functions7m 55s
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Creating logic calculations using IF functions6m 29s
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How do table calculations work?8m 13s
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Table calc directions6m 41s
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What are Level of Detail (LOD) calculations?3m 54s
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EXCLUDE LOD calculations5m 6s
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INCLUDE LOD calculations3m 56s
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FIXED LOD calculations4m 31s
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Using calculations in a join7m 1s
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Challenge: Calculations1m 21s
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Solution: Calculations6m
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Just because you can, should you create a map?7m 45s
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How to create an area map6m 54s
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How to create a symbol map7m 3s
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Customizing the look of your maps7m 37s
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Create locations from coordinates6m 26s
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Create lines to connect locations on a map7m 11s
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Analyzing distances using buffer calculations5m 35s
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Analyzing spatial data using intersect calculations7m 39s
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Challenge: Mapping1m 1s
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Solution: Mapping7m 46s
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What is the Analytics pane?4m 49s
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Create a constant reference line5m 2s
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Create a dynamic average reference line7m 8s
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How to create box plots5m 18s
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Adding totals and sub-totals to a view6m 55s
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Adding a forecast to a view4m 34s
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Adding a trend line to a view5m 53s
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Looking for clusters of data in a view5m 10s
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Creating a reference band7m 22s
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Challenge: Analytics, part 11m 21s
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Solution: Analytics, part 16m 25s
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Challenge: Analytics, part 21m 11s
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Solution: Analytics, part 26m 49s
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How are parameters different compared to filters?7m 18s
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How to use parameters in a calculation6m 51s
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Create dynamic reference lines using parameters7m 25s
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Use a parameter to select dimensions and measures8m 10s
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Use a parameter to search free text fields5m 58s
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Top N analysis5m 38s
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Dynamic parameters7m 18s
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Challenge: Parameters1m 25s
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Solution: Parameters8m 19s
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Introducing the dashboard UI6m 40s
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How to create a tiled dashboard7m 51s
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How to create a floating dashboard4m 51s
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How to use filter actions6m 19s
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How to use highlight actions6m 37s
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How to use URL actions3m 48s
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Navigating between dashboards using go to sheet actions6m 20s
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How to use set actions6m 3s
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A deeper look at containers4m 38s
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Challenge: Dashboards54s
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Solution: Dashboards9m 7s
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Solution: Dashboards, continued9m 2s
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How to create bar charts1m
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How to use colors to highlight data3m 35s
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How to create timelines2m 15s
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How to create small multiple timelines2m 51s
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How to create month-over-month or year-over-year charts3m 13s
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How to create a combined axis bar chart1m 57s
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How to create a combined axis timeline1m 45s
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How to create a dual axis timeline2m 45s
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Two ways to create a crosstab2m 6s
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Enhance a crosstab using colors to create a highlight table2m 3s
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How to turn a crosstab into a heatmap2m 33s
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How to create an area chart1m 28s
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What's the difference between line charts vs. area charts?3m 52s
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How to create 100% area charts2m 32s
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How to create stacked bar charts1m 6s
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How to create a 100% stacked bar chart1m 46s
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How and why to add a running total to a line chart2m 35s
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How to show the difference between values in a line chart1m 48s
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How to create a scatter plot and a bubble chart2m 22s
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How to create a connected scatterplot to show changes over time3m 7s
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How to create a bar-in-bar chart and a candlestick chart3m 14s
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How to create a symbol map1m 56s
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How to create a filled area map2m 3s
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How to create pie charts2m 8s
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How to create Gantt charts4m 19s
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