Tableau for Data Visualization: Exploring Visualizations & Data Formats

Tableau not only has a variety of tools to visualize data but it also allows you to redefine the fields in your data to convey rich meaning. In this course youll explore how multiple dimensions of the underlying data can be portrayed using shapes colors and labels. Youll learn to build a wide variety of charts such as pie charts treemaps and many more to convey various information types. Youll also work with different techniques such as hierarchical combined and calculated fields to arrange the fields in the underlying dataset into hierarchies and groups portraying relationships and facilitating data drill-downs for your users. Lastly youll learn how you can generate sets from combined data so this data can be analyzed with the context of the set as well as outside it.