Data Visualisation with Tableau
- Introduction, who i am and what the course is about
- What you materials you will need for the course.
- What you can build on completing this course
How to connect to your data
- Connecting to files, eg .csv or Excel
- Joining data sources
- Live data connections vs data extracts
- Splitting, Pivoting & Transforming your data
- Data Connection Exercise
Understanding the difference between Green and Blue pills
- What is the difference between Green and Blue Pills?
- How blue & green pills affect rows and columns
- How blue & green pills affect Filters
- How blue & green pills affect colours
- How blue & green pills affect dates
- Green/Blue Quiz
Organising your data
- Setting data defaults to save time later on
- Create hierarchies to drill down into your data
- Creating groups for your data
- Creating and Using Sets
- Create data filters
- Data Organisation Exercise
Enhance your data
- Create calculated fields
- Combine data sources using data blending
- Creating & using Parameters
- Enhancing Data Exercise
Use colour to enhance your viz
- Effective use of colour in data visualisation
- Colour Exercise
Add extra detail to your viz using the Marks Shelf
- Size
- Shapes
- Labels
- Detail
- Tooltips
- Mark Shelf Exercise
Know which chart types to use
- Bar Charts
- Lines Charts
- Scatterplots
- Heatmaps
- Histograms
- Maps
- Dual Axis Charts
- Pie Charts
- Chart Type Quiz
Use visual analytics to find answers in your data
- Adding annotations to your viz
- Add reference lines, trend lines and forecasting Drag and drop analytics (V9)
- Visual Analytics Exercise
Create interactive dashboards
- Creating a dashboard
- Adding interactivity with actions
- Dashboard layout and formatting
- Dashboard Exercise
Storytelling with data with Story Points
- What are Story Points and how to create them.
- Story Exercise
