Part 1: Introduction to Tableau

A Tableau developer requires basic knowledge of Tableau desktop and data ingestion to begin to master the fundamentals of the tool and start to absorb the knowledge required for the Tableau Desktop Specialist Examination.

The first part includes five chapters, which will cover an introduction to the examination; related work; how to ingest data and work with the data pane in Tableau; how to begin to understand the data with iterative hands-on work; dimensions, measures, and marks; and, finally, digging deeper into the basics of Tableau functions and calculation.

By the end of this part, you will have learned about the examination and how to begin working with the tool, understood the basics of functions and calculation, worked iteratively in Tableau, and understood some of the elementary formatting work that can be done. This section will set you up to dig deeper in the next section to really begin to master Tableau’s fundamentals to help...