Analysing Data and Presenting Your Findings

In our first recommended course you learned how to build your first interactive dashboard in Tableau. In our next course we build on this and look at how Tableau can also be used to quickly and easily analyse data, uncover insights and present these back to your stakeholders, all within Tableau.

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What you’ll learn

In this course you’ll learn how to effectively analyse data in Tableau using a number of key techniques to explore your data, identify key insights and then use Tableau Stories to present your recommendations to a group of stakeholders.

By the end of this course you will have:

• Learned how to be more efficient and save time by using workbook templates

• Created a Tableau Story to present your findings and recommendations

• Used Tableau to explore and analyse data in a variety of ways

• Learned how to compare yearly trends and performance to spot patterns and uncover insights in your data

• Created a metrics table to compare groups of products in your data

• Learned how you can use Tableau to quickly discover which products bring in the most and least revenue and profit

• Used to Tableau to dig deeper into your data and investigate reasons for low profit margins

• Created scatter charts and plots to compare measures such as sales, profit and discounts

• Identified and dealt with outliers that may cause inaccurate conclusions in your findings

• Used Tableau to check, explore and size your data ready for analysis

Why take this course

This course goes beyond using Tableau to create dashboards and reports for others and teaches you how Tableau can be used as an invaluable tool for anyone who needs to explore and analyse data quickly, effectively and efficiently.

This course will:

• Teach you key concepts and techniques for analysing data.

• Demonstrate how Tableau can save you time and effort when analysing data and presenting findings.

• Give you hands on experience building a presentation in Tableau using the stories mode, rather than having to build a presentation in PowerPoint or Google Slides.

• Introduce you to some more advanced uses and features of Tableau such as using Table Calculations, Secondary Calculations and Running Calculations.

• Enable you to add another project to your portfolio demonstrating that you can use Tableau to analyse data and come up with recommendations.

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Alan @ The Tableau Academy