Tableau

Data Analytics is an important field for businesses around the globe. Companies are collecting more data than ever before. Through a variety of different techniques, companies are able to make qualitative and quantitative observations about behavioral and data patterns from which they are able to make better and more competitive business decisions. Tableau is an interactive data visualization software that helps users draw meaningful insights from their data.

Tech Kits

Tech Kits are part of the walk-in service provided by Innovate Labs. There are three levels of difficulty meant for different users and their experience with the different technologies. Many of the Tech Kits build off each other as you progress.

Beginner

Introducing Tableau

Length: 30 - 60 Minutes

Description: Tableau is an interactive data visualization software. Data visualization is the process of changing the way we look at data by providing a visual context that helps us make more meaningful insights. With the rise of data analytics in all fields of business, the ability to draw meaningful insights is crucial. This tech kit provides a fundamental overview of the Tableau interface as well as an introduction to creating basic visualizations.

Intermediate

Tableau Driving Business Value

Length: 30 - 60 Minutes

Description: Armed with an introductory knowledge of Tableau, you are ready to explore the vast opportunities the software provides. Tableau can be used both to create simple data visualizations and to drive complex data analysis. By leveraging a variety of built-in features and the ability to create your very own dashboards, the opportunity to discover unique and intriguing insights that drive business decision-making is quite remarkable. This tech kit explores a number of capabilities including uploading data sets, creating calculated fields, filtering data and creating dashboards.

Advanced

Mastering Data Analysis

Length: 30 - 60 Minutes

Description: There is no doubt that Tableau provides enormous opportunity for meaningful analysis of a wide variety of potential data. In fact, the ultimate goal for the Tableau learning materials is to cement this notion in students’ minds, providing the resources to extract such data-driven “meanings” along the way. The advanced material to follow seeks to address this, allowing the student himself to both find and analyze a data set of his choosing. In this way, truly innovative, challenging, and “exciting” data analysis will inevitably result. This tech kit examines “cleaning” data sets, using functions, integrating Level of Detail (LOD) expressions and using calculations.

 

Resources

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Tableau 10.4

Type: Software

Description: Tableau 10.4 offers many new features and enhancements --including more ways to connect and prep your data for analysis, improved formatting, new visual analytics features to help you ask and answer deeper questions, and lots of features for Tableau Server that makes content more discoverable and administration even easier.