Course curriculum

  • 1

    Start Here

    • Welcome to Tableau Essentials: An intro from the Facilitator.

    • Welcome to Tableau Essentials!

    • Learning Objectives - Course Outcomes

    • Target Audience

    • Course Requirements

    • Instructor Introduction

    • Creating a Tableau Account
  • 2

    Module 1: Introduction to Tableau

    • What is Tableau?

    • Introducing the Tableau Workspace

    • Introducing the Tableau Workspace

    • Loading Data in Tableau

    • Connecting (Loading) Data in Tableau

    • Measures and Dimensions in Tableau

    • Measures and Dimensions
  • 3

    Module 2: Comparing data: Bar charts, Tree maps, and Pie Charts.

    • Creating Bar Charts in Tableau

    • Creating a Simple Bar Chart and a Filter

    • Creating Stacked Bar charts and using Labels

    • Creating Side-by-Side Bar Charts

    • Creating Treemaps

    • Creating Treemaps

    • Bonus Video: Creating Pie Charts

    • Bonus Video: Bar Charts, Treemaps, and Pie Charts I

    • Bonus Video: Bar Charts, Treemaps, and Pie Charts II

    • Assignment 1

    • Assignment 2

    • Assignment 3

    • Module 2 - Quiz 1 Instructions

    • Module 2 - Quiz 1
  • 4

    Module 3: Analyzing Trends Using Line charts and Scatterplots

    • Creating Line Charts

    • Creating Line Charts

    • More Line Charts

    • Bonus Video: All types of Line Charts

    • Creating Heatmaps in Tableau

    • Creating Scatterplots in Tableau

    • Creating Scatterplots and Heat Maps

    • Bonus Video: More About Scatterplots

    • Assignment 1

    • Assignment 2

    • Assignment 3
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    Module 4: Creating Dashboards in Tableau

    • What are Dashboards?

    • Creating Dashboards in Tableau

    • Creating a Dashboard

    • Creating more dashboards

    • A Dashboard for World Indicators

    • Build a Dashboard 1

    • Build a Dashboard 2

Learning Outcomes:

By the end of the class the students will be familiar with concepts of:

This course will serve as an introduction to the use of Tableau for creating basic graphs and charts. By the end of the class, the students will be familiar with concepts for dimensions and measures, as well as software tools such as Bar Charts, Tree Maps, Filters, Line Charts, and more. Students will also be familiar with how to create dashboards in Tableau to effectively visualize data.

About the Professor:

Javier Leon

Javier Leon is a Ph.D. Candidate in Data Science. Certified Project Manager Professional, MBA, MS Business Intelligence and Analytics, MS Food Marketing, and a Qlik Ambassador. Javier is passionate about teaching. He has developed several courses for top Universities in the United States. Some of the areas in which he has developed courses include Business Intelligence, Business Analytics, Marketing, International Business, R Programming, Python, Supply Chain Management, Business Analysis, and Data Visualization.  ​ Javier has worked with some of the largest food and beverage companies in the world as a project manager, and in his role, he has led the efforts to develop thousands of dashboards, reflecting the progress of the company toward meeting its strategy through the use of Key Performance Indicators seen in interactive and powerful graphs, charts and tables.

Target Audience

  • New Qlik Sense Users

  • College Students

  • Business Intelligence Professionals

  • College Graduates

  • Project Managers

  • Entrepreneurs wanting to visualize their business performance

  • Business Analysts

  • IT Professionals

  • Professionals who want to use data for storytelling