Tableau Training
Tableau Software Courses: Group Training Onsite in Sydney, Analyse Data, Create Charts and Tell Stories
Tableau Training
Our introductory and intermediate Tableau courses are designed to help you build a strong foundation in data analysis and visualisation. You’ll learn how to connect to data sources, create charts, and develop interactive dashboards that turn data into actionable insights. With Tableau’s powerful tools for data management, storytelling, and online sharing, this course equips you with essential skills for roles in research, analytics, and business intelligence.
Duration
1 Day
Prerequisites
None
Quick Glance
This course is designed to help you build essential Tableau skills, including connecting to data sources, importing and saving files, managing and filtering data, and creating maps, dashboards, visualisations, and data stories. You’ll also learn how to save and share your workbooks and data sources effectively.
Tableau Introduction
Overview
- Downloading Tableau
- Overview
Connecting Tableau to data files
- Excel
- CSV
- Other file formats
Tableau worksheets
- Understanding the Tableau workspace
- An overview of the worksheet
- Meaning of icons
Data Properties
- How to define the data type in Tableau
- Data properties and data fields
- Change data type for a data field (number, date, string, Boolean, etc.)
- Manage data properties (dimensions, measures)
- Manage data fields (discrete, continuous)
Tableau Data Commands
- Filtering
- Sorting
- Grouping
- Hierarchies
Tableau Chart functions
- How to create a basic chart
- Line chart
- Bar chart
- Scatter Plots
- Pie Charts
- Effective Use of Titles and Captions
Tableau Data Analysis
- Basic arithmetic calculations with Tableau
- Working with Statistics and Trend lines
Creating visualisations and story-telling with Tableau
- Creating visualisations with data sets provided
- Building a Dashboard
Saving and sharing data
- Share Workbooks for Collaboration
- Save and Publish Data Sources
Tableau Intermediate
Preparing & connecting Data in Tableau
- Connecting to different types of data sources (Excel, CSV, Access, MS SQL, Tableau Server)
- Structuring data for Tableau
- Manage Data Source Metadata
- Cross database joins
- Data Blending – integrating different data sources
Analysing data
- Create a visual group
- Create a calculated field (eg string, date, simple arithmetic)
- Add a parameter
- Totals and Subtotals
Calculate with tables
- Explaining a table calculation
- Aggregating and disaggregating data
- Forecasting
Building Interactive Dashboard
- How to create a dashboard
- How to perform navigation in dashboards
- Combining multiple visualisations into a dashboard
Visualising Distributions and Multiple Axes to Compare Different Measures
- Making your worksheet interactive by using actions and filters
- Using Background Images
- Animation
Telling a Data Story
- Working with Labels and Annotations
- Visualising Dates and Times
- Custom chart types – KPI matrix, Gantt, Pareto, Trend lines
- Sharing Insights
Sharing and Publishing Workbooks
- Publish to Reader
- Publish to Office
- Publish to PDF
- Publish to Tableau Server and Sharing over the Web
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