Tableau training course

Produce visually compelling, intuitive Dashboards & presentations of your corporate data with Tableau - Gain priceless insights into your data

JBI training course London UK

"Great training, well structured. This enables me to better understand how Tableau works and improve the data analysis for the company." HG, HR Data Analyst, Tableau, May 2021

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03/08/26 - 2 days
£1500 +VAT
14/09/26 - 2 days
£1500 +VAT
26/10/26 - 2 days
£1500 +VAT

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JBI training course London UK

  • Gain an introduction to Tableau
  • Extract business intelligence by adding value to your data
  • Produce visually compelling and intuitive dashboards and presentations of your corporate data
  • Explore the flexible and easy-to-use tools to find, clean, model and visualise data
  • Create interactive visualisations to deliver business insights
  • Integrate data from multiple heterogeneous sources
  • Generate Tableau maps for geographical data
  • Share a story using dashboards to highlight your discoveries

What Is Tableau?

  • The Tableau Ecosystem
    • Tableau Desktop
    • Tableau Server / Tableau Online
    • Tableau Prep Builder
    • Tableau Mobile
    • Tableau Reader
    • Tableau Public
  • The Tableau Licensing Model
    • Creator / Explorer / Viewer
  • Tableau Desktop Overview

How Do I Get Started?

  • A generic Tableau workflow
  • What makes up a Visualisation?

How Do I Connect To Data?

  • Connecting to Tableau Server / Data Files / Databases
  • Using “Live” data connections
  • Creating reusable data sources
  • Connecting multiple data sources via relationships
  • Data pre-processing
    • Data typing, aliasing, splitting fields, reshaping
  • Previewing a dataset
  • Creating data extracts

How Can I Explore My Data?

  • Creating Visualisations
    • Dimensions and Measures
    • Columns, Rows, Pages, Filters and Marks
  • Filtering Dimensions, Measures and Dates
  • Exposing filters to introduce interactivity
  • Sorting data in views

How Do I Organise My Data?

  • Organising data fields by Data Source Table or via Folders
  • Combining multiple members within a dimension to create a Group
  • Ordering data fields to create Hierarchies

How Does Tableau Deal With Dates?

  • Native Date Hierarchy
  • Discrete vs Continuous Dates
  • Creating Custom Dates

How Do I Compare Multiple Values?

  • Using the Measure Names / Measure Values containers
  • Multiple measures on the same axis via combined or shared axis charts
  • Two individual measures axes via dual axis charts with separate mark types
  • Scatter (XY) Plots with or without aggregation
  • Using Mark Types (colour, shape) to represent values

How Can I Show Geographic Data?

  • Using specific or calculated geographies to create maps
  • Customising map background styles and options
  • Map navigation and selection
  • Geographic grouping and custom territories

How Can I Produce Tabular Reports?

  • Creating Crosstab Reports
  • Customising Crosstab Reports with totals and aggregations
  • Improving Crosstabs with visual elements
    • Heat Maps
    • Highlight Tables

How Do I Make Calculations On My Data?

  • Creating Calculated Fields
  • Using the Calculated Field Editor
  • Working with Aggregations and understanding Tableau’s Order of Operations
  • Types of Calculations
    • String, Date, Logic, Type Conversion

What About Comparative Calculations?

  • Tableau’s built-in Table Calculations
    • Running Total, Difference, Percent Difference, Percent of Total, Moving Average

How Can I Show Proportional Data?

  • Stacked Bar Charts
  • Pie Charts
  • Tree Maps

How Can I Add Reference Data?

  • Adding context with Reference Lines
  • Highlighting regions with Reference Bands and Distributions

How Do I Combine My Analyses?

  • Creating Dashboards from one or more visualisations
  • Adding interactivity via Dashboard Actions
JBI training course London UK

 

Business Analysts, Financial Analysts, Data Scientists and Staff who need to use Tableau for producing reports from Excel, SQL Server and other databases.
 

Learn to build Dashboards like this - Typically used for CFO Dashboards, Revenue & Profitability, Expense Management, Financial Planning & Analysis, Sales, Stock Control, Risk & Compliance Analysis...

 


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"Great training, well structured. This enables me to better understand how Tableau works and improve the data analysis for the company." HG, HR Data Analyst, Tableau, May 2021



“JBI  did a great job of customizing their syllabus to suit our business  needs and also bringing our team up to speed on the current best practices. Our teams varied widely in terms of experience and  the Instructor handled this particularly well - very impressive”

Brian F, Team Lead, RBS, Data Analysis Course, 20 April 2022

 

 

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Our Tableau training course shows data analysts how to get the most from this flexible and easy-to-use package. It will enable you to find, clean, model and visualise data, and to share discoveries and collaborate in intuitive new ways.

This course will walk you through the basics of the product, demonstrating functionality and letting you get hands-on.  You will learn to use this powerful tool to help you transform your rows of data into a compelling interactive visual story.

The technology provides significant value to users through its interactive, user-friendly and comprehensible interface. As Christian Chabot, the CEO of Tableau, put it: 

“Customers are turning to Tableau for fast, agile, visual analytics that provide people with the ability to ask and answer their own questions." 

JBI Training offers five courses in this group covering Tableau and data visualisation. Available courses include Tableau (two days, introduction level), Tableau Creator — Server/Online (two days), Tableau Analyst — Beyond the Basics (two days), JavaScript D3 Data Visualisation (four days), and Data Storytelling and Dashboard Design (two days). All courses are available as scheduled classroom sessions in London, as live online instructor-led training, or as customised onsite programmes for data and analytics teams.
Tableau is a leading business intelligence and data visualisation platform used by data analysts, business intelligence professionals, and data-driven organisations to explore, analyse, and communicate data through interactive visual dashboards and reports. It allows users to connect to a wide range of data sources, blend data from multiple systems, and create compelling visualisations without writing code. Tableau is used across industries including finance, healthcare, retail, media, and the public sector for purposes including operational reporting, executive dashboards, sales and marketing analytics, and real-time data monitoring. It is consistently positioned as a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms.
The Tableau introduction course is a two-day programme designed for professionals who are new to Tableau. It covers connecting to data sources, building worksheets and dashboards, creating a range of visualisation types, applying filters and calculations, and sharing and publishing work. The Tableau Analyst — Beyond the Basics course is a two-day programme for delegates who already have working knowledge of Tableau and want to extend their analytical capability. It covers more advanced topics including table calculations, level of detail (LOD) expressions, advanced chart types, performance optimisation, and more sophisticated dashboard design and interactivity techniques. Delegates who have completed the introduction course or have equivalent experience should proceed to Beyond the Basics.
The Tableau Creator — Server/Online course is a two-day programme focused on the server-side and collaborative aspects of Tableau — specifically Tableau Server and Tableau Online (now Tableau Cloud). It covers publishing workbooks and data sources to Tableau Server or Tableau Cloud, managing user permissions and access, scheduling data refreshes, monitoring server usage, connecting to and managing data sources centrally, and administering a Tableau environment for an organisation. It is suited to Tableau administrators, IT professionals, and senior Tableau users who are responsible for deploying, managing, and maintaining Tableau in an enterprise environment.
Tableau and Power BI are both leading business intelligence and data visualisation tools, but they have different strengths and typical use cases. Tableau is widely regarded as the more powerful and flexible visualisation tool — particularly for complex, custom, and exploratory visual analytics — and has a strong following among data analysts and data-heavy organisations. Power BI is Microsoft's BI platform and is more deeply integrated with the Microsoft 365 ecosystem, including Excel, SharePoint, Teams, and Azure, making it a natural choice for organisations already standardised on Microsoft tools. Power BI is generally lower cost at the entry level. Many organisations use both tools — Tableau for advanced analytical work and Power BI for enterprise-wide reporting and Microsoft-integrated dashboards. JBI offers training in both platforms.
Level of detail (LOD) expressions are one of Tableau's most powerful and distinctive features. They allow analysts to compute aggregations at a different granularity than the current view — for example, calculating a customer's first purchase date regardless of what dimension is being shown in the visualisation, or computing a regional average while displaying individual city data. LOD expressions use FIXED, INCLUDE, and EXCLUDE keywords to control the level at which a calculation is performed. They are covered in the Tableau Analyst — Beyond the Basics course as part of a broader focus on advanced calculations and analytical techniques that unlock Tableau's full analytical power.
D3 (Data-Driven Documents) is an open-source JavaScript library for creating custom, highly interactive data visualisations in web browsers. Unlike Tableau or Power BI, which are point-and-click tools with pre-built chart types, D3 gives developers complete control over the visual output — allowing them to build bespoke, animated, and interactive visualisations that go far beyond what standard BI tools can produce. JBI's four-day JavaScript D3 Data Visualisation course covers the fundamentals of D3, SVG graphics, data binding, scales and axes, building common chart types from scratch, transitions and animations, and integrating D3 visualisations into web applications. It is suited to web developers and front-end engineers who need to build custom data visualisation solutions.
Tableau training is suitable for a wide range of professionals. Data analysts and business intelligence professionals who want to build interactive dashboards and explore data more effectively will benefit from the introductory and Beyond the Basics courses. IT administrators and senior Tableau users responsible for managing Tableau Server or Tableau Cloud deployments should attend the Tableau Creator — Server/Online course. Web developers and data engineers who need to build custom visualisations for web applications will find the JavaScript D3 course most relevant. The Data Storytelling and Dashboard Design course is suited to anyone who works with data and wants to communicate insights more effectively, regardless of the BI tool they use.
Yes. All Tableau and data visualisation courses at JBI can be delivered as customised onsite or online programmes for corporate data and analytics teams. Content and exercises can be tailored to the team's data sources, existing Tableau environment, skill level, and specific analytical or reporting objectives. Organisations that want to standardise Tableau skills across a team, upskill a group of analysts from introductory to advanced level, or train administrators on a new Tableau Server deployment can all be accommodated. JBI has delivered Tableau and data analytics training for corporate clients including the BBC, NHS, RBS, Sky, EDF, and Capita.
Salesforce, which owns Tableau, has been integrating AI capabilities into the platform through Tableau AI and Einstein — bringing features such as AI-generated explanations of visualisations, predictive analytics, and natural language querying directly into the Tableau environment. These developments mean that Tableau users increasingly need to understand not just how to build visualisations, but how to interpret and critically evaluate AI-generated insights within their dashboards. JBI's Tableau training is continuously updated to reflect these developments, ensuring delegates understand both the core analytical capabilities of the platform and the AI-assisted features that are becoming part of the standard Tableau workflow.
Yes. Tableau releases regular updates to both Tableau Desktop and Tableau Cloud, and JBI's training content is continuously reviewed to reflect the latest version of the platform. This includes updates to new chart types and visualisation features, changes to Tableau Prep, developments in Tableau's AI and Einstein integration, and updates to Tableau Server and Tableau Cloud administration. Delegates learn skills that are current and applicable to the version of Tableau available in their organisation today.

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