Advanced Tableau - LOD Calculations

About this course

This Advanced Tableau course provides next-level training to be able to prep and display data in an efficient way. In this course, you’ll utilize Tableau to break down and solve the types of business problems that BI analysts and financial analysts typically face. This course will open the hood of Tableau’s SQL processing to give you a deeper understanding of how these calculations work. You’ll also be applying what you learn to 7 different business scenarios, which we hope you’ll publish into a Tableau Public profile to show off your work. By the end, you’ll have a deeper understanding of Tableau and the confidence to tackle a huge variety of problems. Upon completing this course, you will be able to: • Define level of detail and other critical concepts • Identify the grain and level of detail of a data set • Troubleshoot common errors • Apply fixed, include, and exclude LOD calculations to business scenarios • Identify how different LODs are affected by context and dimension filters • Compare LOD calculations to table calculations This Tableau course is perfect for professionals who have a solid understanding of data analysis and want to expand their skill set to include Tableau’s world-leading visualizations. This course is designed to equip anyone who desires to begin a career in business analysis—or other roles that require displaying and analyzing data sets—with the advanced skills to create dynamic data-viewing experiences.