What You Will Learn

Tableau Desktop is often referred to as the Gold Standard for Data Visualization, Data Discovery and Self-Service Data Analytics, and caters for all users from IT Practitioners, to Data Scientists, to Data Consumers. In this course, we are going to push the limits of what we can show in Tableau by creating Bespoke (Custom) Data Visualizations, and more importantly, learn the techniques required, push our boundaries, and stretch our imagination.

  • Creating Bespoke (Custom) Data Visulisations

  • Intermediate / Advanced Tableau Concepts

  • How to use Table Calculations in Tableau

  • Data Densification Techniques in Tableau

  • Drawing using Polygons

  • You need to have Tableau Desktop or Tableau Public Installed. Minimum version 2019.1

  • You need 6-12 Months of Tableau Desktop Experience

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Introduction

    • Hi and Hello

    • About this Course

    • Bespoke Data Visualisations

    • Why Bespoke Data Visualisations?

    • Using Bespoke Data Visualisations

    • Focus on Learning

  • 2

    Core Techniques

    • Introduction

    • Index Function

    • Table Calculations

    • Explore Additional Table Calculations

    • Data Densification

    • Shaped Bar Chart

    • SIN Graph

    • Circle

    • Packed Circle Chart

    • Radial Bar Chart

    • Additional Bespoke Data Visualisation Exercises

    • Summary

  • 3

    Design

    • Introducing Design

    • Finding Inspiration

    • Distilling the Inspiration

    • Sketching your Design

    • Summary

  • 4

    End to End Example

    • What is a Sunburst

    • Preparing the Data

    • First Segment

    • Drawing the First Ring

    • Second Ring

    • End to End Final Touches

    • Summary

  • 5

    Closing the Course

    • Course Review

    • Practice Makes Perfect

    • Thank you

What our Students Say

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Inspired and added a few new tricks to my Tableau toolkit!!

Marian Eerens

Toan has a unique way of making more complicated concepts easy to understand by breaking them down and explaining the individual parts. I now have a much bet...

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Toan has a unique way of making more complicated concepts easy to understand by breaking them down and explaining the individual parts. I now have a much better understanding of the different building blocks to create bespoke visualizations which are all things I can use in my day-to-day business projects. If you want to pick up a few new tricks for your Tableau toolkit and find some new inspiration, I can highly recommend this course.

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