In today's business environment, data is an abundant raw material, and successful organizations have found ways to extract insights from the data. With the abundance of computational power and storage, organizations and employees with many different roles and responsibilities can benefit from analyzing data to find timely insights and gain competitive advantage.
Tableau Desktop: Part 2
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Tableau Desktop: Part 2
This course is part of Tableau Mastery Specialization
Instructor: Bill Rosenthal
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2 weeks to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace
What you'll learn
In this course, you will perform advanced data visualization and analysis in Tableau.
Skills you'll gain
- Data Presentation
- Data Visualization
- Data Visualization Software
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Forecasting
- Dashboard
- Tableau Software
- Advanced Analytics
- Productivity Software
- Data Transformation
- Microsoft Office
- Data Analysis
- Interactive Data Visualization
- Trend Analysis
- Microsoft Excel
- Data Management
- Data Storytelling
- Statistical Analysis
- Time Series Analysis and Forecasting
- Predictive Analytics
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January 2026
Assessments
1 assignment
Taught in English
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This course is part of the Tableau Mastery Specialization
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There are 8 modules in this course
At the beginning of each data analysis project, 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 and transform data.
What's included
1 reading6 plugins
As you work more and more with Tableau®, you will discover options and features that can elevate the quality and impact of your visualizations beyond basic charts. In this lesson, you will refine visualizations.
What's included
5 plugins
Connecting to and extracting from data sources is often only the first step in data analysis or creating visualizations. It's often necessary to manipulate that data to show insights and relationships. In this lesson, you will create calculated fields to find insights, use functions to manipulate data, and analyze data with table calculations.
What's included
8 plugins
While Tableau® allows any person who works with data to create visualizations and find insights, Tableau also supports many features that can be used for rigorous statistical analysis. In this lesson, you will perform statistical analysis, forecasting, and predictive modeling with Tableau.
What's included
5 plugins
Tableau® provides many ways for you to create visual representations of your data. You've already used quite a few of them, in fact. In this lesson, you'll investigate some additional chart types, maps, and get more experience with creating and formatting dashboards.
What's included
6 plugins
Tableau® provides many ways for you to share content and manage updates and notifications. In this lesson, you will publish and manage content.
What's included
5 plugins
As the need to analyze and visualize data-based information expands, more people in diverse job roles need access to data and visualizations. More importantly, they need to be able to get answers to data-related queries. To make access to data-based information easier, Tableau® has developed two technologies that allow users to ask questions of data, and identify the root cause of data anomalies. In this lesson, you will use the Explain Data feature and Tableau Pulse to get answers.
What's included
4 plugins
You'll wrap things up and then validate what you've learned in this course by taking an assessment.
What's included
1 assignment2 plugins
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