Tableau Syllabus

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Tableau Syllabus

Tableau Overview and products

  • Introduction on tableau and its architecture.
  • Tableau products and versions.
  • Different Tableau File Types and their propose.
  • Quick walkthrough on tableau visualizations.

Data Source and Integration in tableau

  • Connecting to data sources
  • Editing data connection
  • Custom SQL
  • Type of connections (LIVE and EXTRACT)
  • Refresh Live and Extract connection use
  • Convert Live to Extract or viscera
  • Perform Cross database Joins between the data sources and options.
  • JOINS (Inner and Outer) and UNION in tableau
  • Data blending
  • Know what are Facts and Dimensions

Tableau Work Sheet items and data types

  • Dimensions and Measures
  • Different Data types (show data types and its property in more details)
  • Discrete and Continuous
  • Show ME (on top of it the symbols are known as work space controls – Not visible in Public)
  • Row & Column Shelf, Title / Caption (caption changes based on the changes on the report) / Summary.
  • Header, label , Pane, cell and axis
  • Marks, Pages, Filters & other options.
  • Introduction to basic graphs
  • Creating Extracts, Hierarchy, Folders.

Different usage of Axis and use case

  • Individual Axis
  • Blended Axis
  • Dual Axis
  • Use Case: 3 measures in one axis
  • Measure names and measure values

 

Concepts

Sorting

  • Quick Sort
  • Sorting using measure
  • Sorting using header and legends
  • sorting using pill
  • Dynamic Sorting

 

Filters

  • Filtering Filters at different levels (Data Source and Work sheet level)
  • Date filters
  • General, Wildcard and Conditional
  • Quick Filter
  • Cascading Filters
  • Context Filter

Reference

  • Adding trend line and reference line (along with various options available for them).

Actions

  • Filter (Hover / Select / Menu)
  • Highlight (Hover / Select / Menu)
  • URL (Hover / Select / Menu)

Calculations

  • Date Functions (Dynamically select YEAR/MONTH/QUARTER Wise sales use parameter)
  • String Functions
  • Logical Statements
  • RANKS, Index, First, Last..
  • YOY in traditional way Vs Tableau and condition the indicators based on growth of current year
  • Quick Table Calculations (Running Total , Difference , %Diff, Lookup, ZN..)
  • LOD (FIXED, INCLUDE and EXCLUDE)

Grouping

  • Grouping using Data Window
  • Visual Grouping
  • Calculated Grouping (Static and dynamic).

 

SETS

  • Creating sets
  • Combined sets (Use case)

Parameters

  • Single Parameter
  • Multiple parameters

Dashboard and Story

  • Object
  • Containers
  • Master Detail Sheet
  • Indexed Dashboard
  • Image Dashboard
  • Introduction to Story Point.
  • Creating Multiple Story

Show Me Visualization / Charts

  • Types (Uni-verity , bi-verity and Multi-verity)
  • Text Table
  • Heat Map
  • Highlight table
  • Pie Chart
  • Horizontal Bar
  • Stacked Bar
  • Side By Side Bar
  • Tree Map
  • Circle View
  • Side by Side Circles
  • Line Continuous & Discrete
  • Dual Lines
  • Area Chart Continuous & Discrete
  • Dual Combination
  • Scatter Plot
  • Histogram
  • Box and Whisker
  • Gantt Chart
  • Bullet Graph
  • Packed bubbles

MAPS

  • Symbol Map
  • Filled Maps
  • Combined Maps
  • Show PIE Chart in maps
  • Map Layers and Map Options (tab on top)
  • WMS background maps
  • Map box

Assignments

  • Hide ABC
  • Exclude 1 item from Region which is tied with Product category.
  • Top 10 products based on Sales and get top 10 based on sales where PC = Furniture
  • Get all 3 region top 10
  • Get top 10 in NOV,DEC in 2012 and 2011
  • Get slider >10 lac then green else red.

Tableau Custom Visualization

  • Word Cloud
  • Donut Chart
  • Lollipop Chart
  • Funnel Chart
  • Motion Chart (Line + Pages)
  • Waterfall (which PSC have made more / less sales)
  • Top N Chart with Measure and Dimension
  • Dynamic Reference Line
  • What IF Analysis
  • Multiple Parameterized Charts with dynamic title
  • Select chart types to see different charts

Integration of Tableau with R