Design Your Data: Tableau Bootcamp (Downtown LA) | Los Angeles

About this class

Students will learn how powerful a tool like Tableau can be to showcase data in a visually insightful manner. The major difference between the workshop and this bootcamp is the accelerated level of functionalities that will be taught.

Students will sign up for a free trial of Tableau Desktop and be given a large data set for hands on trainings throughout the bootcamp. We will be walking through the analytics workflow with a real world case study using Tableau to build a dashboard to tell an insightful story. Below are the functionalities students will leave understanding.

The following are fundamentals that students will walk away with:

• Connecting to data
• Measures v. Dimensions
• Tableau Tips and Tricks
• Filters, Parameters and Calculations
• Data Visualization
• Fundamentals of Data Visualization
• Creating Dashboards
• Advanced Visualizations
• Maps with Tableau
• Customization
• Publishing with Tableau
• Tableau Desktop vs. Tableau Web vs. Tableau Reader

Takeaways

• Use the analytics workflow using Tableau to slow a sample real world case study
• Understand and use a variety of Tableau functionalities to build a sample dashboard
• Understand data visualization concepts and fundamental principles

Prereqs & Preparation

• Free Tableau trial downloaded to laptop, ready to go at start of class
• Laptop