Tableau Desktop Tips, Tricks and New Features

1. Catching Up with Some New Features
· Worksheet Enhancement
· New Actions
· Empowered Dashboard
· Tableau Server
· Ask Data

2. The Tableau Core
· The Different Tableau Products
· Speaking Tableau
· Dimension and Measure
· Blue and Green – Discrete and Continuous
· The Toolbar Options
· Live or Extract

3. Getting Started with Tableau Desktop
· Connecting to Data
· Creating your First Set of Visualizations
· Building your First Dashboard
· Using Tableau for Data Exploration

4. Connecting to Data and Simple Transformations
· Data Connections
· Join Data Easily
· Union your Data
· Simple Transformations

5. Building an Efficient Data Source
· Understanding the Data Source
· Refreshing a Data Source and Dealing with Changes
· Field Customization and Default Properties
· Hierarchies
· Groups, Sets, and Bins

6. Design Insightful Visualizations
· Creating Visualizations
· The Mark Type and Properties
· Using Multiple Measures
· Filters and Pages
· Worksheet Options and Formats

7. Powerful Dashboards, Stories, and Actions
· Dashboard Basics
· Dashboard Objects
· Dashboard Actions
· Creating a Story

8. Publishing and Interacting in Tableau Server
· Introduction to Tableau Server
· Publishing and Modifying the Content
· Interacting with Published Content

9. Introduction to Calculations
· Calculated Field Basics
· Advanced Functions

10. Analytics and Parameters
· Using Built-In Analytics Tools
· How to Work with Parameters
· Creating a Year-on-Year Comparator

11. Advanced Data Connections
· Cross-Database Join
· Data Blending
· Wildcard Union

12. Dealing with Security
· Tableau Server Security
· User Filters
· Row-Level Filters

13. How to Keep Growing your Skills
· The Tableau Community
· Tableau Public
· Community Projects
· Ambassadors, Zen Masters, and Iron Viz