Tableau 10 Business Intelligence Solutions - Volume 2 [Video]

Donabel Santos
Tuesday, February 28, 2017

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Create powerful, effective visualizations to help analyze your data with Tableau 10 by your side

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ISBN 139781788296625

Course Length1 hour and 59 minutes

Video Description

Tableau is a software tool that can speed up your organization’s Business Intelligence capabilities, through its rich visualization offerings, and helps to uncover insights for better and smarter decision making. This tutorial is for business, technology, data, and analytics professionals who use and analyze data and data-driven approaches to support business operations and strategic initiatives in their organizations.

Following on from Volume 1, this volume focuses on the more advanced offerings of Tableau in terms of dashboarding and analytics. You will see how you can leverage these features to make better sense of your data. You’ll understand how Tableau interacts with your data, and be able to create stunning dashboards and story points in Tableau for effective storytelling.

By the end of this highly intuitive and practical video, you'll have gained the confidence and competence to analyze your data more efficiently and effectively by creating compelling dashboards and storyboards in Tableau, and you’ll be able to use them to effectively communicate your business insights.

Style and Approach

This course is a collection of videos that cover a wide range of options for data visualization on offer with Tableau. With this course, you can explore Tableau and pick the business intelligence solution that’s best suited for your needs.

Building Interactive Charts

The Course Overview

Creating a Motion Chart

Creating a Dynamic Column/Row Trellis Chart

Creating a Top/Bottom N Filter

Comparing One to Everything Else

Dynamically Displaying Dimensions

Dynamically Displaying and Sorting Measures

Dashboards and Story Points

Creating a Filter Action

Creating a Highlight Action

Creating a URL Action

Creating an Infographic-Like Dashboard

Creating Story Points

Maps and Geospatial Visualization

Adding Data Layers to the Default Map

Creating Custom Territories

Working with Web Map Service (WMS)

Using Path to Display Movement on a Map

Importing Custom Geocoding

Using a Custom Image Background

Analytics

Adding a Constant Line

Adding a Trend Line

Using a Reference Line

Adding a Reference Band

Performing Cluster Analysis

Visualizing Forecast

Performing Linear Regression with R

What You Will Learn

Build basic to more advanced charts with step-by-step solutions
Use filters, calculated fields, parameters, and actions to add interactivity to charts and dashboards
Create effective and compelling dashboards and story points
Leverage Tableau’s mapping capabilities to visualize location and shape data
Integrate analytics and forecasting to enhance data analysis
Get to know tips and tricks to work more quickly and effectively in Tableau

Authors

Donabel Santos

Donabel Santos is a self-confessed data geek. She loves working with data, writing queries, and developing reports on her SQL Server databases, and exploring and visualizing data with Tableau.

She is the principal and senior business intelligence architect at QueryWorks Solutions, a Tableau Learning and Alliance partner in Vancouver, BC, Canada, providing consulting and training services. She has spent years in consulting and has developed a variety of solutions for clients in different verticals—finance, manufacturing, healthcare, legal, higher education, and local government.

Donabel is a multi-year Microsoft Data Platform MVP (previously known as SQL Server MVP) and has extensive experience in the SQL server in different areas, such as development, administration, data warehouse, reporting (SSRS), tuning, troubleshooting, XML, CLR, and integration with ERPs and CRMs using PowerShell, C#, SSIS, and Power BI.

One of Donabel's passions is teaching and sharing her love for data. She is a Tableau Certified Professional and a Tableau accredited trainer, delivering Tableau public and on-site client training. She is also the lead instructor for a number of courses at British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT), including Applied Database Administration and Design (ADAD) and Applied Data Analytics (ADA) programs. She teaches SQL server administration, development, integration (SSIS), data warehouse foundations, and visual analytics with Tableau.

Donabel has also authored three other books with Packt Publishing: SQL Server 2012 with PowerShell V3 Cookbook, PowerShell for SQL Server Essentials, and SQL Server 2014 with PowerShell V5 Cookbook. She also contributed a chapter to Manning Publications' PowerShell Deep Dives.