Tableau training Austin | Practical dashboard skills | JustAcademy

• What is data visualization & BI
• Importance of visual analytics
• Introduction to Tableau ecosystem
• Tableau Desktop, Server & Public
• Installing Tableau & setup
• Tableau interface overview

• Types of data (structured, unstructured)
• Data analysis lifecycle
• Basics of Excel for analytics
• ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) concept
• Business intelligence fundamentals

• Connecting to Excel, CSV, SQL databases
• Live connection vs Extract mode
• Data types & metadata
• Data refresh strategies
• Working with multiple data sources

• Data cleaning (null values, duplicates)
• Sorting, filtering, grouping
• Pivoting & splitting data
• Data blending & joins (inner, left, right, full)
• Union operations
• Data shaping techniques

• Dimensions vs measures
• Data relationships
• Hierarchies & grouping
• Aggregation vs disaggregation
• Star schema basics
• Data modeling best practices

• Bar, line, pie, scatter plots
• Heatmaps, treemaps, bubble charts
• Geographic maps
• Dual-axis charts
• Combo charts
• Show Me feature

• Types of filters (dimension, measure, context)
• Sorting techniques
• Creating sets & groups
• Interactive filtering
• Hierarchies

• Calculated fields
• Aggregate functions (SUM, AVG, COUNT)
• Logical & string functions
• Table calculations
• Parameters
• Custom calculations

• Level of Detail (LOD – FIXED, INCLUDE, EXCLUDE)
• Time intelligence calculations
• Forecasting & trend lines
• Clustering & statistical analysis
• Reference lines & bands

• Dashboard creation
• Interactive dashboards
• Story points
• Filters & actions
• KPI design
• Data storytelling techniques

• Visual hierarchy
• Layout & spacing
• Color theory for dashboards
• User-friendly report design
• Best practices for business dashboards

• Publishing dashboards
• Tableau Server basics
• Tableau Online (cloud)
• Sharing reports
• Collaboration features
• Data refresh scheduling

• User roles & permissions
• Row-level security
• Data governance basics
• Secure dashboard sharing

• Optimizing dashboards
• Query performance tuning
• Reducing load time
• Handling large datasets

• Debugging data issues
• Validating reports
• Handling incorrect insights
• Data quality checks

• Daily dashboard building
• Real datasets analysis
• Data cleaning exercises
• Visualization practice
• Business case scenarios
• Code review & feedback

• Sales KPI tracking
• Revenue & profit analysis
• Interactive dashboard
• Filters & drill-down
• Business insights

• Multi-source data integration
• Data modeling + calculations
• Advanced visualizations
• Executive-level dashboard

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• Data cleaning + transformation
• Advanced calculations
• Interactive dashboards
• Business insights
• Deployment-ready solution

• Publishing dashboards
• Sharing with stakeholders
• Embedding dashboards
• Exporting reports (PDF, PPT)

• Data analyst resume
• Tableau portfolio projects
• Dashboard case studies
• GitHub / portfolio website
• LinkedIn optimization

• Tableau interview questions
• Data visualization scenarios
• SQL + analytics questions
• Case study solving
• Mock interviews

• Tableau + Python integration
• Tableau + AI insights
• Real-time analytics
• Data storytelling advanced
• Business case simulations
• Microsoft Fabric / BI ecosystem overview