Tableau Desktop for Data Analysis & Data Visualization (Udemy.com)
Learn Tableau Desktop for data analysis, visualization & dashboard design, and build fun Tableau projects & dashboards!
Created by: Maven Analytics
Last updated June 2026
What you will learn
- Build professional-quality Tableau reports & dashboards with Tableau Desktop
- Transform raw data into beautiful interactive visuals & dashboards
- Learn the same tools used by professional business intelligence analysts and data scientists
- Showcase your skills with course projects & assignments (with step-by-step solutions)
- Explore unique data sets and case studies (from Crossfit Competitions to UFO sightings)
- Learn from a best-selling instructor and award-winning Tableau developer
Course Description
Tableau Desktop is one of the most popular data visualization and self-service BI platforms in the world, and a powerful tool for data analysts, data scientists, and business intelligence professionals alike.
This course is a practical, hands-on and project-based introduction to Tableau Desktop, designed to teach you how to connect, analyze and visualize raw data with real-world projects and case studies.
Throughout the course, you'll be playing the role of a newly hired Business Intelligence Analyst for Maven Supplies, a cutting-edge office supply store looking to bring the sizzle back to copy paper and sticky notes. Your mission? Use Tableau Desktop to design and build an executive-level dashboard, from the ground up.
But don't worry, we'll be guiding you each step of the way, with crystal clear explanations and helpful pro tips to help you build your Tableau Desktop data analysis and dashboard design skills.
We'll start with a quick intro to the Tableau platform and community, then connect and transform our first dataset. From there we'll explore sorting, filtering and grouping tools, build and format visuals, define custom calculations and parameters, and finally tie it all together with dynamic, interactive dashboards and stories:
Introducing Tableau Desktop
Installing Tableau, community tools, interface & workflow, helpful resources, etc.
Connecting to Data
Connection types, data interpreter, unions & joins, live connections vs. extracts, etc.
Sorting, Filtering & Grouping
Dimensions vs. measures, context filters, sets & hierarchies, action filters, etc.
Visualizing Data with the Marks Card
Mark types, visual properties, stacking marks, the pages shelf, analytics tools, etc.
Analyzing Data with Calcs & Parameters
Aggregations, table calcs, LOD expressions, parameters, addressing & partitioning, etc.
Building Interactive Tableau Dashboards
Dashboard objects & sizing, tiled vs. floating, device designer, stories, etc.
As you develop your reputation as an expert analyst, you'll encounter a number of extra assignments designed to test your skills and provide an opportunity to apply them to new projects. You'll explore CrossFit competition data, analyze real estate listings, visualize UFO sightings, build reports & dashboards to track hybrid & electric vehicle owners, and more.
By the end of the course, you'll have a deep and well-rounded understanding of Tableau Desktop, and can feel confident adding Tableau skills to your professional resume. Not only will you have developed an entire business intelligence dashboard from scratch, but you will have gained the knowledge and confidence to apply these tools to your own projects.
Whether you're a casual user, aspiring data analyst, or data science professional, this course will give you the tools you need to become an absolute Tableau ROCKSTAR.
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Join today and get immediate, lifetime access to the following:
10+ hours of high-quality video
100+ page Tableau ebook
Downloadable Tableau project files & solutions
Homework assignments & quizzes
Course Q&A forum
30-day money-back guarantee
See you in the course!
-Dustin (Featured Tableau Author & Lead Tableau Instructor, Maven Analytics)
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Instructor Details
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Reviews
By Ukamaka Okechukwu on 3/7/2026
Someone who is a Newbie in Tableau cannot not catch up with these lessons, not enough explanations in most of the lessons, what to do, why and how, the teaching did be so fed up and extremely confusing to a newbie, not ideal for starters but for experts who already used to it or familiar with the basics. a lot of confusion with no clear guidelines on how to do most things especially with the course working sheets.
By Minal Patel on 1/24/2023
yes you have the knowledge but you should have been more open to pass on these knowledge at least for full basic level course with more practical use of them. Otherwise it is just only okay.
By Fardeen Alam on 1/23/2023
There should more clear examples rather than long continues theory. Some topic should be elaborated more. This course is good for the students who already have some knowledge about Power Bi or other visualization tool not for beginners.
By Deepak Holla on 12/9/2022
Dustin has done an excellent job of covering the key topics that are required for anyone just starting with Tableau. The quizzes and assignments at the end of each section were very helpful in reinforcing the concepts covered. I would definitely recommend this course for anyone who wants to get a quick head start to their Tableau journey. This course does not require any prior hands-on experience in Tableau Desktop as it starts from the basic concepts.
By Gaurav Kumar on 5/24/2022
This is my 2 nd tableau course on udemy back to back as beginner and honestly first one from different lecturer just felt that it skimmed over bcoz for beginners who are already familiar with intermediate or advanced analytics it is much more about software interface and its logic rather than analytics logic, which this course perfectly delivered. I wanted a tableau tutorial rather than analytcis course and this is exactly what i needed. Will follow up with advanced course of his too.
By Anonymized User on 8/26/2021
I was very happy to learn about Tableau from Maven Analytics.I had just began to learn Tableau and in Udemy Platform,I wanted to find the best course,I knew Maven Analytics from my previous experience.So I opted for Tableau from Maven Analytics. the tutor was a very experienced tableau expert.I look foreward to do more courses created by Dustin Cabrel. Thanks a lot !You have created a very good course on tableau .
By Kenichi Maeda on 6/15/2021
I chose this course because I took SQL courses from Maven Analytics and they were awesome. This course had the same merits as those that it has good balance of coverage and length, and excellent explanations. It is so well organized that you probably won't have struggle to finish this course. However I found that it would have been better if there were more exercises. Having finished the course now, I feel I just followed instructions and didn't have enough opportunities to be creative. I hope the advanced course will supplement this. Anyway, overall it was a very good course and I can recommend it to those who need introduction to Tableau.
By Anonymized User on 5/10/2021
I really like how detailed and understandable Dustin is when he teaches the basics of Tableau. The way he demonstrates uses of features is amazing--straight to the point, no extra fusses. Thanks to Udemy and Maven Analytics for giving us learners this course! Additional Feedback: Just an improvement suggestion -- hopefully you consider improving the Device Designer lesson by adding step-by-step demo for Phone layout-based dashboard. Thanks.
By Maricruz Polanco on 12/24/2020
I've taken other Tableau courses before, but this is the best by far. I highly recommend it. It was perfectly structured, with the reference material available to download so we didn't have to worry about taking notes, no irrelevant detours in the videos, quizzes, homework and the projects provided more than enough opportunities to practice and reinforce the material learned and I now have two dashboards to use as the start of my Tableau Public portfolio to show hiring managers. I've already signed up for the advanced course. Thank you very much, Dustin!
By Colin Tomb on 12/15/2020
I work with Tableau in my day job and I was asked to construct a dashboard, with having never used Tableau before. Whilst, I learnt a lot from experienced colleagues, Dustin's course help to fill in all those gaps and all the topics were explained in a such intuitive way. I have already purchased the Advanced Tableau course and I hope there is a Tableau Prep course in the works for manipulating the data before being pulled into Tableau Desktop. Many thanks and awesome course!
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