Tableau Desktop Specialist Online Course
Stay ahead with this up-to-date course, aligned with the latest Tableau Desktop Specialist Certification Exam changes. Designed as a hands-on, project-based learning journey, the course takes you from foundational concepts to advanced analytics. You’ll begin with Tableau installation, navigation, and an introduction to core concepts like dimensions, measures, and field types. From there, you’ll create impactful visualizations including bar charts, scatter plots, and dual-axis charts while mastering hierarchies, filters, and interactive dashboards. Advanced techniques such as table calculations, custom sorting, and parameter-based interactivity will help you elevate your dashboards to professional standards.
You’ll also gain expertise in connecting and preparing data using live connections, joins, unions, and blending. With real-world case studies, quizzes, and practical projects, this course ensures you not only build confidence to ace the Tableau Desktop Specialist Exam but also acquire skills you can directly apply in the workplace.
Who should take this Course?
This course is perfect for aspiring data analysts, business intelligence professionals, and students preparing for the Tableau Desktop Specialist Certification Exam. It is also highly beneficial for professionals in business, finance, operations, and IT who want to transform raw data into meaningful insights through engaging visualizations. Whether you’re a beginner in Tableau or someone seeking structured exam-focused preparation, this course equips you with practical skills and the confidence to succeed.
What you will learn
- Build dynamic dashboards to enhance data visualization skills
- Analyze data effectively using calculations and filters
- Create interactive charts to present meaningful insights
- Apply advanced techniques like data blending and joins
- Develop exam-specific expertise for certification success
- Share and publish professional-grade Tableau dashboards
Course Outline
Introduction
- What Will Be Covered
- Tableau Introduction
- Tableau Public Installation
- Software Walkthrough
Understanding Tableau Concepts
- Dimensions, Measures, Aggregation, Granularity
- Discrete and Continuous Fields
- Discrete Date Parts and Continuous Date Values
- Ratio Calculations
- Manage Data Properties
Exploring and Analysing Data
- Bar Chart, Line Chart, and Scatter Plot
- Symbol Maps
- Filled Maps
- Combined Axis Chart
- Stacked Bar Chart
- Dual Axis Chart
- Create a Density Map
- Crosstabs and Highlight Table
- Organize Dimensions into a Hierarchy
- Add a Filter to a View
- Context Filter
- Add a Date Filter
- Custom Dates
- Create Groups Using Labels and Visual Groups
- Create a Set
- Computed and Manual Sorting
- Nested Sort
- Reference and Trend Lines
- Table Calculations - Problem Statement
- Table Calculations - Concepts
- Table Calculations - Scope and Direction
- Table Calculations - Rank Calculation
- Table Calculations - Percent Total
- Create a Calculated Field
- Add a Parameter
- Use Bins and Histograms
Sharing Insights
- Configure Fonts
- Show and Hide Legends
- Format View for Presentation
- Use Viz Animations
- Create Basic Charts for Dashboard
- Create a Dashboard
- Apply Filters Across Multiple Worksheets
- Add Dashboard Actions
- Create Device-Specific Dashboards
- Create a Story Using Dashboards or Views
- Share a twbx as a PDF or an Image
- Publish to Tableau Server
- View and Export Underlying Data
- Export to Microsoft PowerPoint
Connecting to and Preparing Data
- Create a Live and Extract Connection
- Live Connections Versus Extracts
- Save Metadata Properties in a TDS
- Data Model
- Understand Joins
- Use Relationships Instead of Joins
- Create a Data Source That Uses Multiple Connections (Cross-Database Joins)
- Relationships with Calculations
- Data Blending
- Use Relationships Instead of Blend
- Summarize Relationships, Joins, Blends
- Understand Unions
Hands-On Quiz to Test Tableau Knowledge