Path overview
In this path, you’ll gain the Tableau foundation you need to prepare, explore, create, and analyze data visualizations. Not only will you learn the best practices and formatting techniques to create charts and interpret them in various business scenarios, but you’ll also learn to build dashboards and master techniques to communicate your insights and tell a story.
Best of all, you’ll learn by doing — you’ll practice and get feedback directly in the browser. We’ll help you apply your skills to several guided projects involving realistic business scenarios to build your portfolio and prepare for your next interview.
Key skills
- Preparing and exploring data with Tableau
- Modeling, organizing, and analyzing data with Tableau
- Creating reports and build interactive dashboards with Tableau
- Conveying insights to tell a story
Path outline
Part 1: Data Visualization with Tableau [4 courses]
Data Preparation in Tableau 3h
Objectives- Prepare for the Tableau Desktop Specialist Certification Exam
- Import data into Tableau to explore and analyze using visualizations
- Relate various data imported into Tableau using relationships and joins
- Clean and filter data imported into Tableau
Data Visualization Fundamentals in Tableau 5h
Objectives- Employ data visualization and business intelligence to help solve business problems
- Visualize data using Tableau and build different types of basic charts
- Employ data visualization best practices
Visual Analytics in Tableau 3h
Objectives- Perform table calculations for data analysis
- Write level of detail (LOD) expressions
- Add interactivity using Tableau parameters
- Visualize data distributions with reference and distribution bands
Sharing Insights in Tableau 3h
Objectives- Highlight insights using color, size, and text
- Build dashboards to combine charts
- Share and export analyses
The Dataquest guarantee
Dataquest has helped thousands of people start new careers in data. If you put in the work and follow our path, you’ll master data skills and grow your career.
We believe so strongly in our paths that we offer a full satisfaction guarantee. If you complete a career path on Dataquest and aren’t satisfied with your outcome, we’ll give you a refund.
Master skills faster with Dataquest
Go from zero to job-ready
Learn exactly what you need to achieve your goal. Don’t waste time on unrelated lessons.
Build your project portfolio
Build confidence with our in-depth projects, and show off your data skills.
Challenge yourself with exercises
Work with real data from day one with interactive lessons and hands-on exercises.
Showcase your path certification
Impress employers by completing a capstone project and certifying it with an expert review.
Projects in this path
Guided Project — Data Prep in Tableau
Guided Project — Data Prep in Tableau
Guided Project: Business Intelligence Plots
Practice creating data visualizations in this guided project.
Guided Project: Data Presentation
A guided project to finish the data presentation module.
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