Tableau Tutorial for Beginners (Udemy.com)
Learn Tableau and Visualization
Created by: Rakesh Gopalakrishnan
Last updated March 2018
What you will learn
- Connecting to various data sources, and cleaning up data
- Joining multiple datasets (Union, Blending, cross database Joins and many more)
- Visualizing the data as Charts, Graphs, Maps, Plots etc.
- Tricks and tips to tell a simple and effective story using data.
- The concept of Tableau Database or Fast engine (Extracts)
- Visual Analytics, Drilldowns, Sorting, Grouping, Set and Cluster creations, Filtering of data, Parameters, Tooltips, Annotations, Reference lines
- Enhancing or switching your career in the field of Data Science and Analytics
- Packaging your report into a Dashboard.
- Playing with Geographical data types and using Maps in Tableau
- Writing very complex and powerful calculations like aggregate calculations, Date, Logical, String, Number and other types of calculations.
- And many more.
How it compares
Against the other 59 rated Udemy courses in Tableau on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 57% of them
- Reviews7,665#5 of 60 by number of reviews
- Length2.4 hoursshorter than 94% of them
- Last updatedMarch 2018earlier than 94% of them
Course Description
Are you looking to learn visualization for your next job as a data analyst or data scientist? If so, I have got a new course for you. I have recorded a series of videos to learn visualization using Tableau. You will learn, how to connect to different data sources like excel, SQL server and other databases in very less time, without needing to know complex coding and quickly clean up the data and put together powerful visualization. We will look at various examples to take complex data and visualize a simple story using the power of graphs and charts.
What will you gain from this course?
I am a coder and a manager and run a Data science team. Quite often through Linkedin and other channels I get questions on tips to start a career in Databases and Analytics. So I put together this course. I have taken into consideration a lot of stuff, that you will often need if you decide to start a career as a Reporting Analyst or Data Analyst.
By the end of this course, you will have a good understanding of Tableau, how to use it, how to gather data from different data streams and clean them, how to use the various tools provided by tableau in-order to create a report or visualization and many more. In short, you will be apply to directly apply these concepts in your new job or day to day work.
You will be able to take a very complex data and transform that into a beautiful story for analysis and present it to leadership.
Instructor Details
- 4.6 Rating
7,665 Reviews
Rakesh Gopalakrishnan
I am a coder, manager, educator and a gamer. I love data and analytics. In my day job, I work with database technologies including SQL , Big Data and Tableau. I am passionate about technologies and love coding and managing teams. In my spare time I like to teach Big Data analytics, Databases, Programming etc. I am currently working on certain machine learning and Data Science projects and love to explore more in the Statistics field.
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Reviews
By Guy Naamati on 1/13/2023
The course is well fits for whom never worked with Tableau and wants to get the sense of working with the software. After finishing it, I'm surely going to keep learning the tool more deeply, but for the basics this course gives the overall understanding of Tableau.
By Rahul Lamba on 5/24/2020
Awesome and simple explanation. I was fortunate to read about joins before taking up this course from a different resource which helped me to understand it better. However as a pre-requisite i would recommend to have the learning audience take a short course on joins before learning tableau.
By Prarthana Wajpai on 1/16/2020
Yes it is.Number of different practical examples.But is better to tell viewer that first 2-3 videos are just to get familiar with tableau..Or else all will have questions like how that date 2013 April condition i.e filter given in second video itself. Thankyou for sharing knowledge
By Roshan SHAH on 10/24/2019
I did learn basic things previously but through this course i gained more knowledge. One at beginner or intermediate level can go through this course and gain more knowledge. Looking forward to more advanced coursed from the tutor. Thanks!
By Aabha Raut on 6/13/2019
I am really happy with the course content explained by you, I never felt like I am learning Tableau the first time will be such easy. Fully satisfied with the teaching techniques and fluency.
By Arun R Krishnan on 2/20/2019
A very well designed course. A very good launch pad for beginners in data visualization field. Tableau has tons of solutions to offer for the complicated report generating issues followed in today's corporate world. Congratulating Mr.Rakesh for the immense talent he has acquired and time taken to design this course. Looking forward to enroll for other courses too. Thank You Sir !
By Mrunalini A on 1/30/2019
yeah, it's good stuff to learn Tableau. Topics covered with no confusions. Sure we get an idea to use Tableau. Its good, that the instructor is straight to point with no confusions or lengthy explanations. Expected few assignments for practice which are not available.
By Yash Rastogi on 11/27/2018
The overall learning journey with in this course is quite impressive. Such type of fast track shorten course would be more helpful for beginners in the data science. I am literally feeling confident to pursue my career into this path. Thanks Mr. Rakesh for providing such courses and learning experience.
By Justine MacLean on 7/30/2018
This course is good because it has taught me where I need to focus before I can even call myself a beginner with Tableau. I like that the instructor acknowledges where concepts are complex and then suggests you look for more resources if you do not understand.
By Kapil K on 3/29/2018
First of all thanks for creating such a wonderful course. Instructor is highly knowledgeable and does an excellent job in explaining the concepts in lucid manner. I see some bit of rush towards LOD part but apart from the course offers more than what you would expect from a free course. I wish instructor all the best !!!! Lastly I hope that instructor keeps updating the course so that the contents remains relevant. Kudos.
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