Technology Training is pleased to offer a new series of Tableau Desktop training courses designed to help you leverage the full power of Tableau Desktop against use cases relevant to Stanford.
Prerequisites:
A good understanding of Tableau Desktop and its features, hands-on working experience as a Tableau developer for 2-3 months, a thorough understanding of Fundamentals concepts, or having attended and retained the knowledge learned in the Tableau Desktop Beginner course.
Being able to do the following:
- Compare multiple metrics in a single chart
- Differentiate Dimensions and Measures on Tableau
- Differentiate between Blue and Green fields on Tableau
- Know some of the most widely used visualizations in Tableau
- Build a Dashboard
- Save workbooks on Tableau Desktop
- Know the importance of a Tableau Server
- Distribute (or share) Tableau work with developers and end users
- Know why and how to improve performance of the Dashboard
- Know the differences between Calculations and Table Calculations and when to use them
- Identify outliers and look for data anomalies (Not Tableau specific)
Topics to be covered include:
- Review of Fundamentals: Basic Stacked Bar, Side by Side Bar, Highlight table, Date features and Basic filters
- Advanced Calculations: Conditional Statements, KPI chart
- Advanced Table Calculations: Running total, Percent of Total, Rank, Partitioning & Addressing
- Parameters: End User Controls
- Tableau Data Extracts
- Multiple Data Sources -- Joins: Combine Multiple tables based on a common field
- Multiple Data Sources -- Unions: Append multiple tables to get a columnar data set
- Multiple Data Sources -- Blends: Using multiple datasets with different levels of granularity where Joins fail
- Distributions: Box Plots, Jitter Plots, and Bullet Graphs
- Advanced Filters: Global Filter, Relevant Filter, Context Filter and Rank Filter
- Interactive Dashboard:
- Arrange 3 visualizations and provide interactions through Filters and Dashboard Actions
- Understanding Layout Containers
- Navigation and Device Specific Design
Optional Topics (time permitting):
- Combined Sets
- Set Actions
- Geo Maps: Tile Maps, Hex Maps
- Tiled vs Floating dashboard objects
- Transparent Worksheet Backgrounds
- Viz in Tooltip
- Navigating across multiple dashboard
University IT Technology Training classes are only available to Stanford University staff, faculty, or students. A valid SUNet ID is needed in order to enroll in a class.
