1

A general review of business intelligence

2

Tableau’s offerings

3

Introduction to Tableau Desktop

4

Use and benefit of Tableau Desktop

5

Guide to Install Tableau

1

Start page

2

Data source page

3

Worksheet interface

4

Creating a basic view

1

Data Types

2

Data Types

3

Data Roles

4

Visual cues for fields

5

Data preparation

6

Joins

7

Cross database joins

8

Data blending

9

Joining vs. blending

10

Union

11

Creating data extracts

1

Filtering data

2

Sorting data

3

Creating combined fields

4

Creating groups and defining aliases

5

Working with sets and combined sets

6

Drilling and hierarchy

7

Adding grand totals and subtotals

8

Changing aggregation functions

9

Creating Bins

1

Effectively use Titles, Captions, and Tooltips

2

Format results with the edit axes

3

Formatting your view

4

Formatting results with labels and annotations

5

Enabling legends per measure

1

Use strings, Date, Logical and Arithmetic calculations

2

Create table calculations

3

Perform LOD calculations

1

Creating basic charts such as Heat Map, Tree map

2

Bullet charts

3

Creating advanced charts such as Waterfall, Pareto, Gantt

1

Reference lines

2

Reference bands

3

Reference distributions

4

Trend lines

5

Statistical summary card

6

Forecasting

7

Clustering

1

Modifying locations within Tableau

2

Import and manage custom geocoding

3

Explore geographic search

4

Perform Pan/Zoom, Lasso and Radial Selection

5

Measure distance

6

WMS servers

7

Use background image

8

Custom territories

1

Tableau generated fields

2

Measure values and names

3

When to use measure values and names

4

Number of records

5

Generated latitude and longitude

6

Discrete and continuous date parts

7

Special fields

8

Date hierarchies

9

Custom dates

10

Define a fiscal year

1

Create a parameter

2

Explore parameter controls

3

Using parameters in calculations

4

Using parameters and reference lines

5

Using parameters with filters

1

Dashboard interface

2

Build interactive dashboards

3

Explore dashboard actions

4

Best practices for creating effective dashboards

5

Story interface

6

Creating stories

7

Share your work