Tableau Desktop - A Complete Introduction (Udemy.com)
A Comprehensive Guide on Business Intelligence with Tableau Desktop to Prepare, Analyze and Visualize Data
Created by: Academind by Maximilian Schwarzmüller
Last updated November 2022
What you will learn
- Understand Tableau Desktop and use it in your own data analysis projects
- Get to know Tableau Desktop and understand its position within the Tableau Platform
- Learn and apply the core Tableau Desktop features for data preparation, analysis and visualization
- Dive into a typical data analysis project workflow
- Understand the data source segment of Tableau Desktop and connect Tableau Desktop to various source types
- Build various visuals (line-chart, bar-chart, treemap, map, scatter plot and more)
- Dive into calculated fields - Basic calculations, level of detail expressions & table calculations, all covered in the course
- Understand the differences between groups and sets
- Learn how to create and add parameters to filters and calculations
- Create bin charts from scratch
- Use data blending to establish relationships and to connect tables from different data sources
Course Description
You want to get started with data analysis? You also want an easy-to-use, fast and intuitive tool to do so? You want to learn how to easily create your own dataset based on multiple source files? You want to create impressive and insightful visuals in no time?
Then Tableau Desktop is the tool you were looking for! Take the chance and join this practical oriented course and learn all you need to easily take your first steps in your own data analysis projects!
Having worked as a business analyst in a major consultancy, I know the difficulties when learning a new technology. That's why I created this course, the Tableau course I wish I had when I did my first steps in Tableau!
NO prior Tableau or data analysis knowledge is required and while following along an interactive course project, we'll dive into Tableau Desktop's powerful features in a comprehensive course journey. Data preparation, data analysis, adding calculations, establishing relationships, dashboards and so much more - all covered in this course made for everyone but tailored for beginners!
This course goes beyond Tableau's simple drag-and-drop interface though. Tableau offers more than creating charts, so we'll dive into its core features along the entire data analysis project workflow from source file up to final dashboard!
Here's what's included in the course:
Get to know Tableau Desktop and understand its position within the Tableau Platform
Dive into a typical data analysis project workflow
Understand the data source segment of Tableau Desktop and connect Tableau Desktop to various source types
Understand the differences between data preparation and data analysis & visualization
Dive into calculated fields - Basic calculations, level of detail expressions & table calculations, all covered in the course
Understand the differences between groups and sets
Learn how to create and add parameters to filters and calculations
Create bin charts from scratch
Use data blending to establish relationships and to connect tables from different data sources
Build various visuals (line-chart, bar-chart, treemap, map, scatter plot and more)
Understand how to create interactive dashboards and stories
And so much more!
This course is for you if...
...never worked with Tableau Desktop before
...heard about Tableau but you're not sure whether Tableau fits your project requirements
...want to get started with data analysis with a hands-on business intelligence tool
...want to understand the basic concepts of a typical data analysis project workflow from data preparation over data analysis up to visualization
Course prerequisites:
Tableau is available for Windows (Windows 7 64bit or higher) or macOS
NO prior experience with other business intelligence tools is required
NO prior data analysis knowledge is required
Instructor Details
- 4.6 Rating
376 Reviews
Academind by Maximilian Schwarzmüller
Bundling the courses and know how of successful instructors, Academind strives to deliver high quality online education.
Online Education, Real-Life Success - that's what Academind stands for. Learn topics like web development, data analyses and more in a fun and engaging way.
We've taught more than 3,000,000 students on a broad variety of topics. We'd love to teach you as well! :)
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Reviews
By Michael Fraser on 2/1/2024
While the course is great, references to the source files used to train are not accurate and this is pretty crucial to a course teaching you practical application. I was sorely disappointed that I didn't have sample files to follow along with.
By Anonymized User on 7/17/2023
This was an excellent course, the examples were very clear and easy to understand and we were given practice materials to use to try out what we had learned. I would highly recommend for anyone wanting to use Tableau.
By Hector Sanchez on 10/31/2022
Great course! I had already been working with PowerBI for over one year, so my experience with PowerBI helped me to better understand Tableau with this course.
By Elena M Yatzeck on 10/5/2020
Exactly what I needed so far, starting with -- the data set and version of Tableau which are demonstrated match the ones I have. Very clear.
By Ausra Klimaviciene on 8/29/2020
Great course with awesome tutor Manuel Lorenz! Previously I had his wonderful course on Power BI and this time it was as great as the previous one! Great course to learn Tableau desktop and to prepare for certification. Very clear explanations and smooth progressing through the course topics, and useful assignments. After finishing this course I had additional couple of courses on Udemy that provide Certification practice tests and passed Tableau Desktop Specialist Certification with 85 % on a first attempt.
By John Davis on 7/18/2020
I really like how early on the basic structure of Tableau is laid out and what the functions of each area are. Being able to follow along with each step helps to reinforce the lesson. I was taking a course which was a basic regurgitation of the Tableau help videos. No foundation was set.
By Andrew Ferensowicz on 7/13/2020
This course is very good, its diving into the specifics and the nitty gritty of data. Its emphasizes the understanding of data types and how to make sure you know how to connect and analyze these data concepts.
By Gonzalo Arias on 5/13/2020
So far so good. Clear explanation. The instructor has a deep knowledge of tableau. Now it is time to practice.
By Oh Ping Nee on 4/20/2020
This course is suitable for anyone without prior knowledge on Tableau. The instructor is very clear and organised. This is my 2nd course with this instructor.
By Will Cook on 12/23/2019
For a beginner, lesson 5, the instructor went over the repository too fast to figure out what he was saying to do. After going over that area a few times I did figure out what he was trying to tell us. Hopefully, this teaching method improves as the course goes on. This is a BEGINNER course after all.
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Overall Score : 92 / 100












