15 Awesome Tableau Resources (in no order whatsoever)
Visualizing data in Tableau can help transform your business into a data driven culture. We love helping our clients and students achieve data excellence by supporting them on their path to become Tableau Ninjas.
Here are some of our favorite articles, tips and tricks from around the internet to help you on your data journey of mastering Tableau.
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1. Under the Hood.
Our friends over at the Data school have a great article on what is going on behind the scenes of the program if you wish to understand the program on a deeper level. Learn More
2. When to Blend and When to Join?
What to do when you have a one to many relationship? Tableau has a great step by step tutorial on explaining data blends and cross database joins. Learn More
3. Top 15 Level Of Detail Expressions?
Writing LOD’s (Level Of Detail) can take a bit of time to master but they are very powerful when you have a need to go very granular with your data. Heres a great resource on the top LOD’s people use. Learn More
4. LOD Videos Tutorials?
If you are a visual learner you may want to check out this short 2 minute videos on Fixed, Exclude and Include. If you need more support on this issue for your exact business need we offer hour blocks of time to support personal training on Issues like LOD’s.
5. It’s My Parameter (We know, Bad 80’s joke)
Parameters can help you show different numbers, data, or strings all on the same dashboard. It’s very powerful when building effective dashboards that show multiple metrics to support a wider audience. Learn More
6. Maps, Maps and more Maps
Tableau is awesome at build maps with GEO data but if you ever need to dive deeper or build a custom map (like a new stadium or warehouse) then check out this story on how to map anything in Tableau. Learn More
7. Points and Lines on Maps
If you ever have a need to show flight, travel or routing information on a map for a project check out this video on MAKEPOINT and MAKELINE functions. Learn More
8. Driver For Tableau
Ah Yes, Drivers. We all love to hate them but they are critical for connecting to different databases. Keep this link handy. You’ll need it. Learn More
9. Sharing your VIZs
You Built it. You love it. Now it’s time to share your file with others. Learn your options and how to quickly share your masterpiece with others.
10. Security and Validation
Tableau Data Governance is one of the keys to achieving data excellence and part of the Tableau Blueprint. Learn all about the methodology behind the security and integrity of your data. Learn More
11. Tableau Data Management Add-On
Data Management Add-on,Tableau Catalog discovers and indexes all of the content on Tableau Server, including workbooks, data sources, sheets, and flows. Learn More
12. Tableau Server – Data Security
Understand all the options available for data security that tableau offers for data sources that connect to live databases. Learn More
13. Tableau Training Video Library
Tableau has a great library on all the basic features of tableau. From Beginner to Admin they offer some great highly searchable self service resources. Learn More
14. Parameters And Dates
This is a great step by step tutorial on how to filter start and end dates with parameters. They even included a video in case you are looking for something more visual. Learn More
15. LOD Calculations
And finally Here’s a great video from Tableau on level of detail Calculations. LODs of Fun with Level of Detail Calculations
