Advanced Tableau Training Overview
This live, private Tableau for Advanced Dashboard Design training course teaches attendees how to create attractive and user-friendly charts, infographics, and dashboards in Tableau. If desired, we can workshop with your team's own data.
Note: for added modules on interactivity, this course may be extended to 3 days.
Location and Pricing
This course is taught as a private course in-person or online for teams of 3 or more. To receive a quote for online corporate training, please contact us.
In addition, some courses are available as live, instructor-led training from one of our partners.
Objectives
- Format Worksheets
- Create Dashboards
- Create and import custom shapes, color palettes, and charts
- Produce templates for seamless consistency across an organization
- Create Content
Prerequisites
Students must have taken Accelebrate's Intermediate Tableau course or have the equivalent experience. Having at least 3 months of experience using the tool (including writing calculations) is strongly recommended.
Outline
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Introduction
Entire Workbook vs. One Sheet
Navigation Pane
Formatting Pane
- Fonts
- Alignment
- Shading
- Borders
- Lines
Marks Card
- Text
- Using fields for dynamic text
- Dummy fields for static text
- Shapes
- Color
- Custom color palettes
- Adding borders
- Size
Titles and Captions
- With static and dynamic text
- Instead of color legends
Cleaning up the View
Annotations
Leveraging Dual-Axis and Dummy Fields
- Custom charts
- Customized text
Reference Lines
Duplicating sheets
Objects
- Containers
- Show/Hide
- Selecting and formatting
- Custom images
- Text
- Blank Pieces
- Floating vs Tiled
Layout Tab
- Custom Size
- Borders
- Background
- Padding
Bring in Own Data and Big Ideas (Optional)
- Sketch out Ideas
- Design Elements
Conclusion
Training Materials
All Tableau training students receive comprehensive courseware.
Software Requirements
- Tableau Desktop
- Microsoft Excel 2016 or later
- Internet access
- Related data and lab files that Accelebrate would provide
