Tableau Bootcamp (NYC or Online)
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Tableau has earned its reputation as the industry standard for data visualization, and for good reason. It's a fully featured tool that gives you complete control over the look and feel of your charts, graphs, maps, and dashboards, letting you turn raw data into something that's both informative and visually compelling. Beyond individual charts, Tableau lets you compile your work into stories and dashboards that make it easy to communicate insights to others, which is exactly the kind of skill that stands out in data-driven roles.
This course eases you into the world of data visualization before getting into the nuts and bolts of what Tableau Public has to offer. You'll learn how to connect to datasets, explore and filter data, and build a wide range of visualizations from the ground up. As you get more comfortable, you'll dig deeper into Tableau's tools, work with geographic data to create maps, and fine-tune the look of your visuals. By the time you finish, you'll know how to manipulate and publish all kinds of visualizations with confidence.
Topics included
Curriculum
What you'll learn
- Connect to datasets in various formats and clean, filter, and structure the data for visual storytelling
- Create a variety of visualizations, including bar charts, line charts, treemaps, heat maps, and dual-axis charts
- Use Tableau's calculation tools to build custom fields, apply aggregates, and enhance data analysis
- Format charts with labels, tooltips, colors, and axes to improve clarity and visual impact
- Work with geographic data to build interactive map visualizations, including choropleths and proportional-symbol maps
- Customize dashboards and stories for different audiences and devices using Tableau's interactivity tools
- Integrate external map services and use advanced visualization types such as spider maps and alluvial diagrams
- Publish your work to Tableau Cloud and export dashboards for professional sharing and collaboration
Course syllabus
Module I: Working with Your Data
Understanding Data
- What is data
- Where to find data
- Foundations for building Data Visualizations
- Tableau Versions
- Tableau Workflow
- Tableau Chart Types
Working with your Data in Tableau
- Using Data file formats
- Connecting your Data to Tableau
- Cleaning-up the data with the Data Interpreter
- Structuring your data
- Sorting and filtering Tableau data
- Pivoting Tableau data
Creating your First Visualization
- Getting started with Tableau Software
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Using Data file formats
- CSV, TXT
- Connecting your Data to Tableau
- Creating basic charts (line, bar charts, Treemaps)
- Using the Show me panel
Tableau Calculations
- Overview of SUM, AVR and Aggregate features
- Creating custom calculations and fields
- Applying new data calculations to your visualization
Formatting your Visualization
- Formatting Tools and Menus
- Formatting specific parts of the view
- Editing and Formatting Axes
Working with your Data in Tableau
- Cleaning-up the data with the Data Interpreter
- Structuring your data
- Sorting and filtering Tableau data
- Pivoting Tableau data
Organizational tools
- Using Filters
- Using the Marks panel
- Using the Detail mark card
- Using the Size mark card
- Using the Label mark card
- Customizing filters
- Using and Customizing tooltips
- Formatting your data with colors
Distributing and Publishing your Visualization
- Tableau file types
- Publishing to Tableau Online
- Sharing your visualization
- Exporting your visualization
Module II: Mapping & Advanced Visualizations
Intro to mapping data
- Concepts of mapping data
- Requirements in mapping data
- Formatting geographic data for Tableau
- Using Polygon data
- Using background images
- Integrating with Map Services - Mapbox, WMS
- Customizing map layers and map options
Creating Visualization Maps
- Creating Choropleth maps
- Creating Proportional Symbol maps
- Tracking data Over Time Using Maps & Pages
- What is a Density Map?
- Distributing and Publishing your map Visualization
Creating a Dual Axis Chart
- Dual Axis Charts
- Dual Axis (Layered) Maps
- Benefits of dual axis charts
More Chart Types
- Cyclical data and circular area chart
- Alluvial Diagram
- Ranking Chart
- Creating Spider maps
- Creating Heat maps
Creating dashboards and Stories
- Using Storytelling
- Creating your first dashboard and Story
- Design for different displays
- Adding interactivity to your Dashboard
Modifying and Updating Data
- Relinking Data Sources
- Swapping out Data Sources
Individualized Project Work
- Students will work with either provided data sets or their own data to work on individual projects during this supervised classroom time.
What's included
- Free course retake within one year to refresh the material and gain practice.
- Course workbook
- Class recordings
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Live classes
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Starts at 18:00 · America/New_York (EDT); final session ends at 21:00 EDT
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Self-paced course
Learn through recorded lessons on your own schedule.
This course is available for 30 days. You can choose when to start your access period. Once you activate, you will have 30 days to complete it (access the course materials, quizzes, projects and videos). You may request one extension of seven (7) days. Other extension requests will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Videos are not downloadable.
- Tuition
- $499
- Course length
- 12 hours
- Schedule
- On your schedule
Why Learn Tableau?
Well known as the industry standard for creating all kinds of charts, Tableau is a fully featured software that allows you to create complex data visualizations—including maps, charts, graphs, and other colorful representations of data that are both informative and aesthetically pleasing. Tableau is a powerful tool that gives you full control over the look and feel of your visualizations and helps you compile your charts into stories and dashboards.
Create and Distribute Interactive Visualizations
In this course, you’ll begin exploring the field of data visualization and the various tools Tableau Public offers. You'll learn how to identify datasets to connect to, then how to explore, analyze, filter, and structure data to create visualizations. Once you’ve learned the foundations, you’ll explore more advanced Tableau tools, use geographic data to create maps, and learn how to customize your visualizations. By the end of this course, you’ll be able to manipulate and publish a wide variety of visualizations.
Self-paced curriculum
What you'll learn self-paced
- Connect to datasets in various formats, then clean, filter, and structure the data for effective visual storytelling
- Create a range of visualizations, including bar charts, line charts, treemaps, heat maps, and dual-axis charts
- Use Tableau’s calculation tools to create custom fields, apply aggregates, and deepen your data analysis
- Format charts using labels, tooltips, color, and axis adjustments to improve clarity and impact
- Work with geographic data to create interactive map visualizations such as choropleths and proportional symbol maps
- Customize dashboards and stories for various audiences and screen sizes using Tableau’s interactivity tools
- Integrate external mapping services and explore advanced visualization types like spider maps and alluvial diagrams
- Publish your work to Tableau Cloud and export dashboards for professional sharing and team collaboration
Self-paced syllabus
Module I: Working with Your Data
Understanding Data
- What is data
- Where to find data
- Foundations for building Data Visualizations
- Tableau Versions
- Tableau Workflow
- Tableau Chart Types
Working with your Data in Tableau
- Using Data file formats
- Connecting your Data to Tableau
- Cleaning-up the data with the Data Interpreter
- Structuring your data
- Sorting and filtering Tableau data
- Pivoting Tableau data
Creating your First Visualization
- Getting started with Tableau Software
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Using Data file formats
- CSV, TXT
- Connecting your Data to Tableau
- Creating basic charts (line, bar charts, Treemaps)
- Using the Show me panel
Tableau Calculations
- Overview of SUM, AVR and Aggregate features
- Creating custom calculations and fields
- Applying new data calculations to your visualization
Formatting your Visualization
- Formatting Tools and Menus
- Formatting specific parts of the view
- Editing and Formatting Axes
Working with your Data in Tableau
- Cleaning-up the data with the Data Interpreter
- Structuring your data
- Sorting and filtering Tableau data
- Pivoting Tableau data
Organizational tools
- Using Filters
- Using the Marks panel
- Using the Detail mark card
- Using the Size mark card
- Using the Label mark card
- Customizing filters
- Using and Customizing tooltips
- Formatting your data with colors
Distributing and Publishing your Visualization
- Tableau file types
- Publishing to Tableau Online
- Sharing your visualization
- Exporting your visualization
Module II: Mapping & Advanced Visualizations
Intro to mapping data
- Concepts of mapping data
- Requirements in mapping data
- Formatting geographic data for Tableau
- Using Polygon data
- Using background images
- Integrating with Map Services - Mapbox, WMS
- Customizing map layers and map options
Creating Visualization Maps
- Creating Choropleth maps
- Creating Proportional Symbol maps
- Tracking data Over Time Using Maps & Pages
- What is a Density Map?
- Distributing and Publishing your map Visualization
Creating a Dual Axis Chart
- Dual Axis Charts
- Dual Axis (Layered) Maps
- Benefits of dual axis charts
More Chart Types
- Cyclical data and circular area chart
- Alluvial Diagram
- Ranking Chart
- Creating Spider maps
- Creating Heat maps
Creating dashboards and Stories
- Using Storytelling
- Creating your first dashboard and Story
- Design for different displays
- Adding interactivity to your Dashboard
Modifying and Updating Data
- Relinking Data Sources
- Swapping out Data Sources
Individualized Project Work
- Students will work with either provided data sets or their own data to work on individual projects during this supervised classroom time.
What's included with self-paced
- Course workbook
- Self-paced video lessons
Self-paced lessons
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Tableau Course Online (Self-Paced)
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Requirements & Getting Started
Lesson 1: Getting Started With Tableau
9:58
Download and extract the class zip folder, install Tableau Public, and access the provided datasets, images, and presentations to follow along with day one of the Tableau training.
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Introduction to Tableau
Lesson 1: Getting Started With Tableau
8:26
Demonstrate how to access, sign into, and use both the Tableau Desktop and Tableau Public online versions to create and manage visualizations.
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Understanding Data
Lesson 1: Getting Started With Tableau
14:47
Learn key data concepts, explore chart types and visualization principles, understand Tableau features and dashboards, distinguish data types, evaluate data sources, and practice using vetted datasets for effective visual analysis.
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Foundations for Building Data Visualizations
Lesson 1: Getting Started With Tableau
6:13
Understand key skills for effective Tableau visualizations—statistics, storytelling, graphic design—and align data, questions, and visuals while using appropriate Tableau tools based on privacy and functionality needs.
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Tableau Versions
Lesson 1: Getting Started With Tableau
7:06
Understand Tableau’s user roles—Creators build content, Explorers analyze it, Viewers interact with it—while noting pricing, feature differences between Tableau Desktop and Public, and comparisons to Power BI in workflow and accessibility.
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Workflow & Chart Types
Lesson 1: Getting Started With Tableau
4:57
Follow the Tableau workflow by connecting data sources, formatting data, creating and editing visualizations in worksheets, building dashboards, and publishing results, while understanding chart types, and distinguishing dimensions (qualitative) from measures (quantitative).
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Working with your Data
Lesson 1: Getting Started With Tableau
7:52
Connect and structure clean, well-formatted data (like Superstore Sales) in Tableau Public, avoiding unstructured or mislabeled datasets that require correction with limited tools like Data Interpreter.
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Creating your First Visualization
Lesson 1: Getting Started With Tableau
6:14
Connect to your data by dragging and dropping the file into Tableau to quickly establish a connection without modifying the original data.
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Previewing your Data in the Source Menu
Lesson 1: Getting Started With Tableau
9:25
Connect and preview your data in Tableau by importing the main Orders table first, then add People and Returns to build relationships based on matching fields, verify data types, hide unnecessary fields, and ensure dimensions and measures are correctly identified by color.
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Quickly Creating a Visualization
Lesson 2: Creating Visualizations
8:44
Create a quick category-region report in Tableau using drag-and-drop fields, apply color scales for sales, quantity, and profit, adjust view to entire sheet, and add text labels with one click.
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Data Visualization Basics
Lesson 2: Creating Visualizations
10:29
Learn how to simplify complex data using visual tools like charts, colors, and sorting to make insights easy to understand at a glance.
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The Tableau Interface
Lesson 2: Creating Visualizations
16:35
Explore the Tableau interface by navigating the data source area, data sidebar, marks card, shelves, view pane, and menu options to build, format, and manage visualizations.
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Creating a Pie Chart
Lesson 2: Creating Visualizations
13:33
Create a pie chart using the Show Me panel by selecting one dimension (e.g., Person) and one measure (e.g., Sales), then customize it using the Marks card to add labels, percentages, adjust size and layout, and format text and colors as needed.
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Creating a Bar or Column Chart
Lesson 2: Creating Visualizations
10:32
Create bar or column charts by dragging dimensions (e.g., Subcategory) to Rows and measures (e.g., Sales) to Columns, adjust formatting using right-click or dropdown options, apply labels with the T button, set default currency formatting via Default Properties, and customize chart appearance through Format options including shading, borders, and axis scaling.
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Swap Rows and Columns
Lesson 2: Creating Visualizations
3:59
Swap rows and columns using the swap button, drag fields to rearrange positions, sort data alphabetically or by field values, reset to original data source order, and adjust view using the fit menu options.
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Adding a Sub Category
Lesson 2: Creating Visualizations
5:54
Add dimensions like subcategory and product to your chart to display hierarchical data and explore levels of detail, using the "Describe" option to assess member counts for practicality.
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Sorting and Saving
Lesson 2: Creating Visualizations
3:07
Summarize sorting options, explain saving methods including Save and Save As with TWB and TWX formats, clarify that Ctrl-S publishes to Tableau Public, and outline how to rename or hide sheet titles.
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Organizing the Data Sidebar
Lesson 3: Organizing Data
6:53
Create hierarchies in Tableau by grouping related fields (like country, state, city, zip) to organize the sidebar and simplify visualizations.
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Sets
Lesson 3: Organizing Data
15:39
Create a set to filter subcategories where total sales are greater than or equal to 100,000, enable "Show Members in Set," and optionally filter by year using a single value list for dynamic reporting across worksheets.
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Groups
Lesson 3: Organizing Data
14:14
Create manual groupings within a dimension to categorize data (e.g., electrical vs. non-electrical) by selecting and assigning values, similar to organizing breakout rooms.
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Labels
Lesson 3: Organizing Data
5:50
Adjust labels, tooltips, alignment, and formatting settings to customize data visualization display.
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Tool Tips
Lesson 3: Organizing Data
12:22
Edit axes to customize scale, tick marks, and labels; modify and reset tooltips to control displayed data and insert other worksheets for detailed hover views.
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Measures
Lesson 3: Organizing Data
7:29
Change measure aggregations (e.g., sum to average) and chart types (e.g., bar to line) by adjusting settings and using available controls in Tableau.
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Marks Card
Lesson 3: Organizing Data
5:49
Format sheets, rows, columns, fonts, alignment, shading, borders, and colors using the formatting sidebar or right-click options.
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Tableau Calculations
Lesson 4: Calculations and Dashboards
8:37
Create a calculated field for profit margin by dividing SUM(Profit) by SUM(Sales), then format it as a percentage and add it to the view using label or tooltip as needed.
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Pages
Lesson 4: Calculations and Dashboards
8:21
Use the Pages feature in Tableau with "Show History" enabled to overlay and animate year-by-year data changes in a single worksheet.
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Dashboards Part 1
Lesson 4: Calculations and Dashboards
14:05
Create a responsive Tableau dashboard by selecting "New Dashboard," setting the size to "Automatic," dragging in sheets and objects like text boxes, containers, and images, arranging them using floating or tiled layouts, customizing layout and appearance, and adding navigation buttons to link multiple dashboards for interactive navigation.
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Dashboards Part 2
Lesson 4: Calculations and Dashboards
8:25
Demonstrate how to create interactive Tableau dashboards with filters, navigation buttons, and publish them to Tableau Public for user interaction.
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Creating Stories
Lesson 4: Calculations and Dashboards
2:54
Create a story by dragging dashboards or charts onto blank pages, customizing layout with captions or numbers, adjusting size settings, and navigating in presentation mode.
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Data Interpreter
Lesson 5: Data Interpreter
10:00
Use Tableau's Data Interpreter to automatically detect and clean common spreadsheet issues like extra headers, footers, and multiple tables before importing the data.
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Life Expectancy Exercise
Lesson 5: Data Interpreter
8:42
Recreate the initial poor visualization in Tableau using the cleaned data, then improve it by applying best practices demonstrated through Excel's Power Query and pivot table features.
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Life Expectancy Exercise Solution
Lesson 5: Data Interpreter
7:34
Create a filtered area chart in Tableau showing the top 10 countries by life expectancy using summed values to handle missing data and improve visual clarity.
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Creating Multi Chart Worksheets
Lesson 6: Multi-Chart Worksheets
10:00
Create a multi-chart worksheet by dragging multiple measures into the rows or columns shelf, customizing each chart independently using individual marks cards.
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Dual Axis & Combo Chart
Lesson 6: Multi-Chart Worksheets
8:50
Create a dual-axis combo chart by placing two measures on Rows, assigning distinct chart types (e.g., bar for Sales, line for Profit), setting each to a non-automatic type, then selecting Dual Axis from the right-side measure’s dropdown, aligning scales with Synchronize Axis, and customizing colors as needed.
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Creating a Better Line Chart
Lesson 6: Multi-Chart Worksheets
17:50
Create a better line chart by overlaying two synchronized charts—one as a line and one as customizable circles or shapes—using dual axis in Tableau.
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Creating a Butterfly Chart Part 1
Lesson 6: Multi-Chart Worksheets
8:48
Create a basic butterfly chart by reversing the axis on one bar chart in a side-by-side layout to visualize opposing data categories.
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Creating a Butterfly Chart Part 2
Lesson 6: Multi-Chart Worksheets
10:58
Duplicate the basic butterfly chart, insert a zero-value calculated field between the two measures to place category labels in the center, change its mark type to text, clean up axes and gridlines, and adjust label formatting for a cleaner intermediate butterfly chart layout.
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Formatting the Butterfly Chart
Lesson 6: Multi-Chart Worksheets
13:57
Create an advanced butterfly chart with centered subcategory text by duplicating axes, synchronizing scales, layering dual-axis text fields, and adjusting formatting and colors for clarity.
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Creating State Selector
Lesson 7: Parameters and Filtering
10:00
Create a parameter called "state selector" from the State field, set its default value to New York, then connect it to a calculation, filter, or set to enable interactive map navigation.
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Creating a Calculated Field
Lesson 7: Parameters and Filtering
15:26
Create a calculated field called "State Focus" that filters data to a selected state or all states using a parameter.
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Creating a Parameter to Control a Filter
Lesson 7: Parameters and Filtering
11:06
Demonstrate how to create a parameter to dynamically control a top N filter for subcategories in a bar chart, enabling user input to adjust the number of displayed items (e.g., top 5, top 10), which is not possible using basic filters alone.
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Creating an International Map Part 1
Lesson 7: Parameters and Filtering
12:12
Troubleshoot and clean data in Tableau by fixing date formats, correcting city name misspellings with aliases, and resolving unrecognized international locations to create accurate visualizations.
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Creating an International Map Part 2
Lesson 7: Parameters and Filtering
8:18
Exclude "MLS" from city filter, create a calculated field for "country" using an IF statement to assign Canadian cities to "Canada" and others to "US", change its data type to geographic role "country", drag it to the detail mark, and verify all locations appear on the map.
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More Chart Types
Lesson 7: Parameters and Filtering
12:13
Explore various Tableau chart types—including heat maps, density maps, highlight tables, pie and donut charts, stacked bars, scatter plots, histograms, box plots, Gantt charts, bullet graphs, and flow maps—with brief creation steps and usage tips.
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