Data Visualization & Dashboarding, Advanced

Course Outline

• Complex sorts
  • Discuss why sorted visualizations do not always appear correctly
  • Leverage the INDEX function
• Advanced visualization types
  • Work with expanding bubble, donuts and clusters
• Work with multiple data sources and data extracts
  • Create a data extract
  • Discuss custom SQL
  • Create a union
  • Blend data
  • Use data blends with calculated fields including NULL values
• Create text-based visualizations
  • Work with splits
  • Build regular expressions
• Advanced calculations
  • Use calculations for statistical purposes
  • Examine the impact of aggregation in calculations
• Use level of detail calculations
  • Introduce and use level of detail calculations
  • Work with nested level of detail calculations
• Adding parameters to a worksheet
  • Use parameters to filter
  • Use parameters for other purposes
• Use bins and sets
  • Create a dynamic set
  • Work with histograms

• Advanced comparisons
  • Show progress towards goals
  • Create a top-N visualization
• Advanced mapping
  • Examine additional map types
  • Review automatic geocoding in Tableau
  • Modify geocode locations
  • Perform custom geocoding with data blending
  • Use background images in visualizations for spatial analysis
• Learn how exact date functions
• Forecasting and trendlines
  • Explore forecasting
  • Review trendlines
  • Enhance forecasting with the use of trend lines
• Work with distributions of data
  • Understand and use Pareto visualizations
  • Customize Pareto visualizations
• Create advanced dashboards
  • Add interactivity to dashboards
  • Use instructions and annotations
  • Add actions to a dashboard
  • Add tabs to a dashboard
  • Add navigation and help to a dashboard
  • Assess performance of a dashboard