Introduction and Preparation
  • Introduction
  • Tableau Professional or Tableau Public?
  • Tableau Desktop for Students - Free Version
  • Course Datasets - download the data here
  • Getting Familiar with Tableau File Types
  • Where to Find Help
  • Interface Orientation
First Steps in Tableau
  • Connect Tableau to a Data Source
  • Setting Up Extract Filters and Aggregations
  • Joining Tables
  • Building a Visualization
  • Planning a Visualization
  • Ways of Sorting Your Data
  • Totals and Subtotals
  • Data Roles - Discrete and Continuous Fields
  • Hierarchies
  • Changing the Aggregation of Measures
  • What Tableau Does Behind the Scenes
  • Calculated Fields
  • Filtering Visualizations
  • Parameters
  • Table Calculations - Theory
  • Table Calculations in Practice
Let us Visualize!
  • Proportional Chart Types
  • Charts for Comparison
  • Added Lines
  • The Bullet Graph
  • Charts for Showing Distribution
  • The Histogram
  • The Scatterplot
  • Time and Project Management
  • Maps
  • Building Maps
  • Data Tables
  • The Format Pane
  • Marks, Cards and Highlighting
  • Tooltips, Labels, Annotations
  • Axes
  • Marks in Detail
  • The Viz in Tooltip Tool
  • Examples for Using the Viz in Tooltip
Tableau Output Features
  • Worksheets
  • Dashboards
  • Stories
Data Blending and Data Preprocessing in Tableau
  • Data Blending and Its Comparison to Joins
  • Custom Calculations in a Data Blend
  • Blending on Multiple Keys - Another Visual Example
  • R Code for Domain Padding
  • Domain Padding in R
  • Connecting Tables of the Same Structure
  • Data Preparation Tools in Tableau
  • Splitting and Concatenating Strings
Functions and Calculations
  • Logical Statements
  • Date Functions and Calculations
  • Comparison of Calculation Types
  • Explaining the Level of Detail
  • How LOD Expression Can Help the Analysis
  • The General Syntax of LOD Expressions
  • The INCLUDE Expression
  • The EXCLUDE Expression
  • The FIXED Expression
  • Exercise with LOD Expressions
  • Comparing the Results of LOD Expressions
  • LOD Expressions and Filters
Integrating R
  • Connecting R and Tableau
  • Scripts for R Integration
  • R Outlier Detection
  • Clustering in Tableau / R
  • Pitfalls when integrating R
  • Statistical Modeling
The R Side of Things + Theory on Charting
  • Chart Overview 1
  • Chart Overview 2
  • Statistical Outliers
  • R Outliers - Univariate
  • R Outliers - Multivariate