Making Visualizations
Learn the basics of data visualization in Tableau.
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Key Concepts
Review core concepts you need to learn to master this subject
Visualization Tour
Dimensions & Measures in action: drag+drop
Aesthetic properties, aka Marks Cards
Adjusting Presets
Storytelling - key takeaways
Dashboards 101
Wrap Up
Visualization Tour
Visualization Tour
Familiarity with the visual layout of Tableau is its own skill worth practicing. While data exploration is relatively straightforward, actually using Tableau for data visualization can prove confusing or frustrating at first because of the amount of new visual information to take in.
Making Visualizations in Tableau
Lesson 1 of 1
- 1Now that we’ve learned how to set up our data in Tableau, let’s get vizzing! Tableau allows us to visualize our data in numerous ways, from simple text tables to treemaps, or even a combination of …
- 2With so many visualization options in Tableau, it can be easier to create nonsense than to create a meaningful viz. And with the amount of data fields and marks available to us, it’s easy for the c…
- 3In Tableau, we can create a variety of visualizations using different combinations of dimensions and measures. Let’s see what that means for analyzing our Rotten Tomatoes data. When we double clic…
- 4We learned how to generate a bar chart in the previous lesson. Now we’ll enhance that chart with more information using the Marks Card. We’ll walk through the cheat sheet on the right to see what e…
- 5So far, we’ve created vizzes with Tableau’s existing presets and learned how to use the Marks Card to change certain properties. This can create helpful and informative visualizations, but to take …
- 6So far we’ve been using the Rotten Tomatoes dataset in our vizzing journey. Let’s close that out for now and apply the principles we’ve learned so far toward a new dataset for some additional pract…
- 7Dashboards are a collection of several visualizations or views. They are particularly useful when we want to display multiple views at once. We’ll create a dashboard using the volcanoes dataset by…
What you'll create
Portfolio projects that showcase your new skills
How you'll master it
Stress-test your knowledge with quizzes that help commit syntax to memory