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Yvan Fornes
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Vizs made by the students
Let see How It was possible with only a 2 day class and a data challenge
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What can you expect from this
presentation
Risk to give up
Beginner
WOW
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Time
The Tableau learning curve
Pre class 2 days Post class
assignment Training assignment
Skills Master
Risk to give up
Beginner
WOW
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Time
The Tableau learning curve
Pre class 2 days Post class
assignment Training assignment
Skills Master
Risk to give up
Beginner
WOW
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Time
The Tableau learning curve
Pre class 2 days Post class
assignment Training assignment
Skills Master
Risk to give up
Beginner
WOW
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Time
The Tableau learning curve
Pre class 2 days Post class
assignment Training assignment
Skills Master
Goals
Discover Learn 1. Struggle
Provoke the WoW effect Understand
2. Encourage them to learn by themselves
Tools
Risk to give up
1. Instructions to get Tableau
2. Link to online self-learning content
3. Pre-Class Assignment
WOW
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Time
Pre-class Assignment
Publish a Dashboard on Tableau Public
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The Tableau learning curve
Pre class 2 days Post class
assignment Training assignment
Skills
Goals
Risk to give up
WOW
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Time
Agenda Four Levels of Calculation
Tableau concepts Filters & Order of Operation
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The Tableau Flow
Live Demo to show the “Tableau Flow” | 20 mn to build an interactive dashboard
Same Exercise as
the prerequisite Assignment
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2 Days training Four Levels of Calculation
Tableau concepts Filters & Order of Operation
Measure
Numeric data
Aggregated as a sum, average,…
Dimensions
The way you
categorize / segment
the data
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Discrete vs Continuous
How do I want to display the Data ?
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The Four Pill Types 2
How do I want to
display the data ?
Continuous Discrete
1
How do I want to
segment the
data ?
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Source: Jonathan Drummey & Datablick
7 Aggregation
1. VizLOD
2. Aggregation calculations
Let’s practice
VizLOD
Demo
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Aggregation calculation challenge
With the SuperStore Data Source
Correct answer: $ 60
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Aggregation calculation challenge
SuperStore - Row data
First you must know what
each data source row
(records) represent
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Tableau Automatic aggregation calculation
Average per Order
$170
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Customized calculation
Average per Product
$1,019 17
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$ 60
2 Days training Four Levels of Calculation
Tableau concepts Filters & Order of Operation
1. Record level Result computed for each row of data before aggregation
Can be measure or dimension
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The 3 main calculation levels
Calculations are processed 1 after each others – This a flow
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Filters & Order of Operation
Filters & Order of Operation
Demo
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Top & Conditional Filters are computed before regular dimension filters
SQL = Where
SQL = Having
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Context Filters are computed before
SQL = Where
SQL = Having
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2 Days training Four Levels of Calculation
Tableau concepts Filters & Order of Operation
Or
Answer Test
questions hypothesis
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Keep it simple but not too much
How to build a Viz with a strong unity and at the same time that is not too simple, not boring ?
• Use 2 colors (never more than five) and play with the color shades
• Use 2 fonts and play with the font styles
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Hierarchy
Start from the overview then use more detailed charts
Overview
Detailed
views
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Practice
I do with them a dashboard | Same Exercise as the prerequisite Assignment
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2 Days training Four Levels of Calculation
Tableau concepts Filters & Order of Operation
1. Add context
2. Define your KPIs wisely
3. Segment to spot outliers
4. Use aggregation with caution
5. Use white space
6. Reduce chart junk
7. Use color blind colors
8. Titles and text are key
9. Use a story, do not show the data
The Tableau learning curve
Pre class 2 days Post class
assignment Training assignment
Skills
Goals
1. Get them out of the danger zone
2. Push themLearn
Discover to practice to become autonomous
Struggle Understand
Tools
WOW
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Time
The Post Class Assignment
Answer a question with a data visualization published on Tableau Public
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Teaching recommendations
_ Focus on the Tableau core concepts. They can learn the rest
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@YvanFornes