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How to Install Tableau and Create First Visualization | Tableau Tutorials for Beginners

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This is our first of 5 tutorials on Tableau. In this series we will learn the UI of tableau as well as how to effectively create visualizations and dashboards. Tableau Download: https://public.tableau.com/en-us/s/download Dataset: https://www.kaggle.com/gregorut/videogamesales Favorite Tableau Courses: Tableau Data Visualization - https://coursera.pxf.io/MXYqaN Tableau A-Z - http://bit.ly/385lYvN ____________________________________________ SUBSCRIBE! Do you want to become a Data Analyst? That's what this channel is all about! My goal is to help you learn everything you need in order to start your career or even switch your career into Data Analytics. Be sure to subscribe to not miss out on any content! ____________________________________________ RESOURCES: Coursera Courses: Google Data Analyst Certification: https://coursera.pxf.io/5bBd62 Data Analysis with Python - https://coursera.pxf.io/BXY3Wy IBM Data Analysis Specialization - https://coursera.pxf.io/AoYOdR Tableau Data Visualization - https://coursera.pxf.io/MXYqaN Udemy Courses: Python for Data Analysis and Visualization- https://bit.ly/3hhX4LX Statistics for Data Science - https://bit.ly/37jqDbq SQL for Data Analysts (SSMS) - https://bit.ly/3fkqEij Tableau A-Z - http://bit.ly/385lYvN *Please note I may earn a small commission for any purchase through these links - Thanks for supporting the channel!* ____________________________________________ SUPPORT MY CHANNEL - PATREON/MERCH Patreon Page - https://www.patreon.com/AlexTheAnalyst Alex The Analyst Shop - https://teespring.com/stores/alex-the-analyst-shop ____________________________________________ Websites: GitHub: https://github.com/AlexTheAnalyst ____________________________________________ *All opinions or statements in this video are my own and do not reflect the opinion of the company I work for or have ever worked for*

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Now we have two really quick different visualizations, right?', 'start': 894.691, 'duration': 4.142}, {'end': 902.214, 'text': 'What I want to do is just show you how to combine those,', 'start': 899.833, 'duration': 2.381}, {'end': 909.177, 'text': "because what you are going to do is you're going to actually come in here and you're going to do new dashboard.", 'start': 902.214, 'duration': 6.963}, {'end': 910.338, 'text': "That's what this button is right here.", 'start': 909.197, 'duration': 1.141}, {'end': 913.696, 'text': 'Now, when we come in here, the size is extremely small.', 'start': 910.714, 'duration': 2.982}, {'end': 916.257, 'text': "It's very easy to fix that.", 'start': 914.156, 'duration': 2.101}], 'summary': 'Demonstration of creating visualizations and combining them in a dashboard.', 'duration': 28.549, 'max_score': 887.708, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/6xv1KvCMF1Q/pics/6xv1KvCMF1Q887708.jpg'}], 'start': 259.56, 'title': 'Tableau data visualization', 'summary': 'Introduces tableau basics, covering data import, field categorization, and visualization techniques, focusing on dimensions, measures, and automatic visualization assignment. it also covers creating interactive visualizations, applying filters, and combining visualizations into a dashboard for client interaction and presentation.', 'chapters': [{'end': 462.073, 'start': 259.56, 'title': 'Introduction to tableau data visualization', 'summary': 'Introduces the basics of tableau, covering data import, field categorization, worksheet creation, and data visualization techniques, with a focus on dimensions and measures, and automatic visualization assignment.', 'duration': 202.513, 'highlights': ['Tableau automatically categorizes fields as either strings or numbers, simplifying the process of recognizing field types within the software.', 'Worksheet creation in Tableau enables users to build visualizations, charts, and graphs based on imported datasets.', 'Tableau provides automatic visualization suggestions based on the type of data being manipulated, simplifying the process of visualization creation.', 'Dimensions such as genre or names are typically used for categorical data, while numerical data serves as measures in Tableau visualizations.']}, {'end': 1010.989, 'start': 462.754, 'title': 'Tableau visualization overview', 'summary': 'Covers the creation of interactive visualizations in tableau, including adding fields, creating line graphs with color-coded genres, using labels for data interpretation, applying filters for specific data subsets, and combining visualizations into a dashboard for client interaction and presentation.', 'duration': 548.235, 'highlights': ['The chapter covers the creation of interactive visualizations in Tableau, including adding fields, creating line graphs with color-coded genres, using labels for data interpretation, applying filters for specific data subsets, and combining 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