Why learn Tableau?
Tableau is the most widely used BI tool globally. The top reasons why you should learn Tableau are: Firstly, it can be used by business users as well as non-technical users. Secondly, it allows you to easily work with a variety of data sources. You can also easily share data smoothly from PC to iPad. Thirdly, the drag and drop functionality of Tableau along with its interface enables user to create dashboard in hours or days rather than weeks. Fourthly, technical users can do machine learning, natural language, statistics in Tableau. Lastly, it allows you to clean, visualize, analyze data and make decisions based on real-time insights as well.
In this course, you will use Tableau Desktop, Tableau Prep, SQL Server Management Studio and Tableau Public to understand the concepts of padding and densification. The course will cover padding and densification at an advanced level. This course will take you through different use cases and apply a range of methodologies to fulfil padding/densification. In addition, you will understand how to create an amalgamation of Sankey & Bump Chart step-wise. Also, this course will take you through the process of how to create Waterfall, Bullet, Marimekko Charts step-wise and explain when can these charts be useful. You will get hands-on practice with imputing, padding and densification on different datasets.
After the first session of the course, you will understand the basic terminology in domain completion and padding. Then in the second session of the course, we’ll go into more depth and you’ll master additional skills for imputing and padding. The assessments along with the lecture will help you to cement your skills till now. The following section will go into bit more depth and so on. You’ll see how your padding or densification skills will improve with every section. Also in this course, there will be hands-on assessment including exercises at the end. I hope you enjoy and benefit from this course.
By the time you complete this course, you'll be able to undertake line mark type densification, date domain padding and other types of densification as well. You will also be able to understand the scenarios where the advanced charts including sankey and bump charts, waterfall, bullet, marimekko can be deployed. You will be able to construct these advanced charts in Tableau.
