Tableau for R Users – Explore Tableau and Embed R Code

Learn how to create data visualizations in Tableau and how to use R from within Tableau

Created by: R-Tutorials Training
Data Science Education

What Will I Learn?

• identify which Tableau product suits your needs
• exploring Tableau's data visualization and analytics toolbox
• shaping and formatting visualizations (color, axes, marks, titles, annotations)
• fusing data of a single or different sources with techniques like joins, data blending or union
• understanding Tableau calculation types and aggregations (custom calculations, table calculations, LOD expressions)
• structuring data within Tableau (hierarchies, filters, creating new data out of existing data)
• creating dashboards and stories
• connecting to R / using R from within Tableau
• R examples (outlier detection, modeling, classification)

Requirements

• Basic knowledge about data science and data visualization
• Enthusiasm to learn about advanced visualization tools
• Tableau 10 or 2018 on your machine (Professional or Public)
• You should have some R skills (for the R part of the course)

Target audience

• You should have some R knowledge in order to make full usage of the Tableau/R connection
• The course is for Tableau beginners and for students looking to get better with Tableau
• You should take the course if you want to find out which Tableau product might be best suited to you