My tips for people who want to learn Tableau without any budget :)
1. Training & Tutorials on Tableau's website
1. Training & Tutorials on Tableau's website
Select 'On Demand', you have to create
an account but it's free and you don't need to be a Tableau customer.
The tutorials are selected into few groups Intro, Advanced, Chart
Types, Server. It's the best place to start learning.
Check 'Live Online' out too.
Tableau's Knowledge Base – hundreds of tutorials
are divided by topic.
Each short tutorial gives answer to a
problem, it's good to check the titles and do tutorials which can be
useful in your work. The list look like a never ending story but no
reason to be in stress as most of things you will learn doing 'On
Demand' tutorials.
2. Just work with Tableau :)
Even if you have no budget for this
purpose you can grab some open data and Tableau Public, which is
free, and keep working with data. Some options are available only in
Tableau Desktop but still majority of the most important options are
present in both versions.
3. Tableau Forum
You can ask questions there, which are
answered by Tableau employees and users. It's also worth to check if
others had the same problems as you, then there is a chance that the
answer is already waiting for you.
The forum is divided by topics.
4. Twitter and other social networks
Mark your question-tweet with hash tag
#Tableau.
Using this hash tag you can show off
your Tableau works, check data visualizations and tutorials others
have done.
From my experience I've learn that
Twitter is the most popular social network among Tableau users. Each
Tableau conference is broadcasted on Twitter, Twitter users can vote
for their favourite data visualization in contests organized by
Tableau.
LinkedIn
You can join groups devoted to Tableau,
I use:
- Tableau Public Visualizations (a
subgroup of Tableau Software Fans and Friends)
5. Blogs
Google it, it's simple as that, in this way you
can find the answer on your problem on forums, blogs of Tableau's
sales agents or just some people like me :)
My list of blogs with
tutorials devoted to Tableau and data visualizations created in
Tableau.
The tips that I've posted don't demand
any money, of course books and paid courses are great resources too.
There is also a hard way to learn
Tableau, you have to contact with me and I will explain you how to
use the software in a language that you don't speak lol
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