Before you can create compelling visualizations, you need data on which you can base your visualizations. Specifically, you need to connect to a data source and prepare the data so that it can be used effectively by Tableau®. In this lesson, you will connect to data and prepare it for analysis.

Once your data is connected and prepared, it's time to create the visualizations that let your data tell its story. In this lesson, you will create a view and customize data in the visualization.

When you work with very large and complex datasets in Tableau®, you may need to organize the data to help yourself and others create meaningful visualizations more easily. In this lesson, you will manage, sort, and group data.

By its nature, Tableau® is not designed to be used in a silo. Data analysts work with data sources to access the data they need, and they create visualizations in workbooks to show insights gleaned from the data. This information must then be shared with others in the organization. To do that, the data sources and workbooks must be accessible to others. In this lesson, you will save and publish data sources and share workbooks for collaboration.

Having extraneous information in your reports and visualizations can detract from the insights and story you're trying to tell with the data. To keep your message focused, it's sometimes necessary to filter what people are looking at. In this lesson, you will configure worksheet filters, apply advanced filtering options, and create interactive filters.

Once you've created a view to share insights from the data you're analyzing, you can customize the view in many different ways to help bring out key points in the data. In this lesson, you will customize visualizations by formatting and annotating views, highlighting data, and creating animated visualizations.

Tableau® enables you to analyze and explore data with compelling visualizations. By putting related visualizations together in a dashboard, you can present new insights by showing how numbers or changes in one area affect numbers in another. In this lesson, you will create and enhance dashboards in Tableau.

While visualizations and dashboards are great ways to show data and insights, there are times when the true change that has taken place, or the magnitude of the opportunity sitting before you, can only clearly be understood through a narrative that pulls together history, context, and data. In this lesson, you will create stories in Tableau®.

You'll wrap things up and then validate what you've learned in this course by taking an assessment.