Beginning Tableau

Our beginner Tableau training aims to introduce participants to the potential of visual data analysis. The course will introduce Tableau as a relevant business intelligence (BI) tool and answer business problems and questions that would be difficult or impossible to answer with other BI tools. The practical, problem-solving-oriented training focuses on the transfer of knowledge and the creation of concrete analyses in addition to the theoretical transfer of knowledge that helps the user to use the software.

The most important objective of the course is to enable participants to produce their own regular reports, presentations and decision support documents more efficiently.

The course is designed for business, data preparation and data analytics professionals who regularly work with large and complex data sets, prepare reports and decision-preparation presentations, and often face challenges and difficult situations without the right BI tools. The training can also be particularly useful for employees in management positions who make decisions based on reports prepared in Tableau.

• Introduction: visual data analysis as a decision support solution
• Introduction to Tableau products: support for collaboration across the enterprise, automatically updated reports, "single source of truth"
• Report optimisation: from reporting to analytics
• Tableau Desktop and Public: connecting to data, presenting chart types, creating charts
• Data Visualisation Best Practices: what metrics to display and how to display them
• Data Storytelling: innovation in turning data into information
• Connecting to data, data preparation: there is life beyond Excel
• Understanding why and using this information to achieve business goals: comparative analysis
• How to predict expected outcomes from past data - time series analysis
• What metrics to use?
• How to generate metrics: functions, calculations
• "Answering business questions on the fly: filters, hierarchies, parameters
• Functionality that doesn't exist outside of business intelligence tools: map analytics, find correlations from a new perspective
• Analysis at the click of a button: built-in analytics
• Visualisation best practices 2 (visualisation, tooltips)
• Presenting the analyses produced: dashboards and stories
• Effective collaboration: sharing analytics, intra-company collaboration interface, mobile access
• Create your own analysis

There is no prior qualification required to participate in the course.