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Tableau Tutorial

Tableau is the leading reporting tool available in the current market. In this Tableau Tutorial, we will show you the step by step process to connect with different kinds of data sources. The next section of this Tableau tutorial covers creating tableau reports like tables, charts, maps, dashboards, and stories with screenshots.

Tableau is the smartest data visualization tool available in the market. With a simple drag and drop functionality, Tableau allows the users to design Charts, Maps, Tabular and Matrix reports, Stories, and Dashboards without any technical knowledge.

Tableau Tutorial for beginners and Advanced

To use Tableau, you don’t need any programming knowledge or coding skills. Perhaps, all you need is data to analyze your business and Tableau Desktop to create reports. Using Tableau Desktop, you can create visually rich and meaningful reports. These Tableau reports tell you the story about your organization or business, perhaps the data you provide to it. It has a simple drag and drops features to design reports.

In this tableau tutorial, we are providing links to each topic present in Tableau Desktop. Use these hyperlinks to see their definition and a practical example.

Introduction and Data Sources

Tableau Desktop connects to various Data sources such as Text Files, CSV, Excel, Databases, Data warehouse, Big Data, Cloud data, Cloud application, so on and so forth. This Tableau tutorial section explains you to Install Tableau and Connect a different set of data sources to Desktop.

  1. Download and Install Software
  2. Best way learn Tableu
  3. Start Page
  4. Show Me
  5. Connecting to Excel Files
  6. Connecting to Text Files
  7. Connect to Microsoft SQL Server
  8. Connecting to Microsoft Analysis Services

Working with Data

The following links in this Tableau tutorial helps you to prepare data

  1. Creating and Removing Hierarchies
  2. Bins
  3. Parameters
  4. Set
  5. Combined Sets
  6. Grouping Example 1
  7. Grouping Example 2
  8. Edit Groups

Tableau Reporting Tutorial

  1. Creating a first Report
  2. Data Labels
  3. Format Report Title
  4. Create Folders
  5. Sorting Data
  6. Add Totals, Sub Totals, and Grand Totals to Report
  7. Joining Tables
  8. Data Blending
  9. Table Report
  10. Crosstab Report
  11. Annotations

Tableau Tutorial on Charts

This tableau tutorial section shows the list of Tableau charts that are available in Desktop. Use them to create any chart as per your requirements.

  1. List of Charts
  2. Area Chart
  3. Bar Chart
  4. Box Plot
  5. Bubble Chart
  6. Bump Chart
  7. Bullet Graph
  8. Circle Views
  9. Dual Combination Chart
  10. Dual Lines Chart
  11. Funnel Chart
  12. Traditional Funnel Charts
  13. Gantt Chart
  14. Grouped Bar Chart
  1. Heat map
  2. Highlight Table
  3. Histogram
  4. Cumulative Histogram
  5. Line Chart
  6. Lollipop Chart
  7. Pareto Chart
  8. Pie Chart
  9. Scatter Plot
  10. Stacked Bar Chart
  11. Text Label
  12. Tree Map
  13. Word Cloud
  14. Waterfall Chart

Tableau tutorial on Dual Axis Reports

  1. Dual Axis Reports
  2. Blended Axis
  3. Individual Axis

Reference Lines

  1. Add Reference Lines
  2. Reference Bands
  3. Reference Distributions

Tableau Maps

  1. Basic Maps
  2. Symbol Map
  3. How to use Google Maps
  4. Mapbox Maps as a Background Map
  5. WMS Server Map as a Background Map

Tableau Dashboard Tutorial

  1. Create a Dashboard
  2. Format Dashboard Layout
  3. Create a Device Preview of a Dashboard
  4. Create Filters on Dashboard
  5. Dashboard Objects
  6. Create a Story

Tableau Tutorial on Filters

This section of the Tableau tutorial covers the list of supporting filters with an example of each filter.

  1. Filters Introduction
  2. Quick Filters
  3. Filters on Dimensions
  4. Conditional Filters
  5. Top and Bottom Filters
  6. Filters on Measures
  7. Context Filters
  8. Slicing Filters
  9. Data Source Filters
  10. Extract Filters

Tableau Table Calculations

  1. Calculated Fields
  2. Create Table Calculations
  3. Basic Approach to Calculate Rank
  4. Advanced Approach to Calculate Rank
  5. Calculating Running Total

Tableau Functions

This section of Tableau tutorial explains about the list of available built-in standard functions.

  1. Aggregate Functions
  2. Case Function
  3. Date Functions
  4. If, If Else, and Else If
  5. Logical Functions
  6. Math Functions
  7. String Functions
  8. Table Functions
  9. Type Conversion Functions