Introduction
  • Which Tableau Product to Choose
  • Getting Help
  • The Tableau Interface - A Quick Walkthrough
Demo Project
  • Selling Lures - The Story Behind Our First Project
  • Your First Steps - Connecting to a Database & Building Your First Visualization
  • The Show Me Tool - Picking a Suitable Chart Type
  • Customization - Highlighting and Annotating Data Points
  • Saving Workbooks - Workbook Types
  • Check Your Knowledge - Demo Project
The Core of Tableau
  • Aggregations - How is Your Data Processed Behind the Scenes?
  • Calculated Fields - Custom Calculations in Tableau
  • Note for Tableau Public users
  • Filters - Ways to Search for Relevant Data
  • Parameters - Make Your Graphs Interactive
  • Exercise - Creating a 'TopN' Filter
  • Table Calculations - How Do They Work in Theory?
  • Table Calculations in Action
  • Exercise - Ranking Products
  • Check Your Knowledge - The Core of Tableau
Working with Time Series Data in Tableau
  • Time Series Data - Introduction to Data Roles
  • Percent Difference - Representing Change in Values Over a Period of Time
  • Moving Average - Create a Smoother Using Tableau's Interface
  • Moving Average - Create a Smoother Using Custom Code
  • Exercise - Defining a Time Frame for a Moving Average Calculation
  • Creating a Forecasting Line
  • Tableau's Integrated Forecasting Tool
  • The Discrete Data Role
  • Exercise - Year on Year Difference
  • Monitoring Data - Relative Date Filtering
  • Date Functions - A Summary
  • Latest Order - Another Case of Relative Date Filtering
  • Exercise - Combined Bars and Line Chart
  • Check Your Knowledge - Working With Time Series Data
Small Things That Make Your Life Easier with Tableau
  • Custom Hierarchies - Data Structuring in Tableau
  • Groups - Data Structuring in Tableau
  • Manual and Dynamic Sets - Data Structuring in Tableau
  • Logical Statements - IF, IIF, CASE and Logical Operators
  • How to Resolve a Common Error Message - Aggregation: Attribute
  • Added Lines - Reference Line, Trend Lines, Drop Lines
  • Show More Data - Labels, Tooltips, Cards and Highlighters
Scatterplots
  • Scatterplot - The Basics
  • Add More Dimensions to Your Scatterplot
  • Exercise - Dynamic Scatterplot
  • Showing a Correlation Over Time - Animated Scatterplot
  • Detecting Outliers - Circle View with Box Plots
Maps in Tableau
  • Tableau's Map Service - How to Create Maps in Tableau
  • Dual Axis Map - Merge Symbol and Filled Maps
  • Maps and Paths - Show Directions of Movement and Their Volume
  • Custom Maps - Use Any Background for Maps
  • Animated Map
Reshaping, Joining and Data Blending
  • Data Preparation - Get Your Data in Shape
  • String Calculations - Splitting and Concatenating Strings
  • Joins - Create a Row Level Connection Between Two Tables
  • Data Blending - Connecting Data From Different Data Sources
  • Calculations in a Blend
  • Union - Extend Tables with Extra Rows
  • Tableau File Types - Sharing Your Analysis
Further Chart Types
  • Histogram - Show the Distribution of Your Observations
  • Modern Proportional Chart Types - Treemap and Packed Bubble Chart
  • The Bump Chart - Show a Ranking Over Time
  • The Gantt Chart - Time Management with Tableau
  • The Gantt Chart - Daily Schedules
  • Custom Waterfall Chart - Another Usage of the Gantt Chart
  • Bullet Graphs - Compare Performance vs. Target
  • The Lollipop Chart
  • Wordcloud
Dashboards and Presentation
  • Introduction to Dashboards
  • What Makes a Dashboard Great - Principles of Creating Effective Dashboards
  • Actions - An Alternative Tool for Filtering and Highlighting
  • Swapping Charts
  • Presentation
Level of Detail Expressions - LOD calcs
  • What Are Level of Detail Expressions About?
  • The Syntax of LOD Expressions
  • The INCLUDE Keyword
  • The EXCLUDE Keyword
  • The FIXED Keyword
  • Exercise: Calculating the Difference Between to LODs
  • Comparing the Results of LOD Expressions
  • LOD Expressions and Filters
What's New in Tableau?
  • How to Put a Visualization into a Tooltip?
  • Viz in Tooltip Use Cases
  • New Line Types: How to Best Use Jump and Step Lines
  • Cluster Analysis
  • Minor Updates to Version 2018.1
Extra Section - Chart Guide
  • Before You Begin... Planning and Asking Fundamental Questions
  • Proportional Chart Types
  • Charts for Data Comparison