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Build Essential Charts in Tableau Desktop

Learn how Tableau turns data into powerful visuals using fields, shelves, and marks. This course will teach you to build and customize essential charts for comparison, trends, and interactivity in Tableau Desktop.

Intermediate
1h 4m
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Created by Troy Kranendonk

Last Updated Sep 11, 2025

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Build Essential Charts in Tableau Desktop

Learn how Tableau turns data into powerful visuals using fields, shelves, and marks. This course will teach you to build and customize essential charts for comparison, trends, and interactivity in Tableau Desktop.

Intermediate
1h 4m
(0)

Created by Troy Kranendonk

Last Updated Sep 11, 2025

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Creating effective data visualizations in Tableau can be overwhelming without a clear understanding of how fields, shelves, and marks work together. In this course, Build Essential Charts in Tableau Desktop, you’ll gain the ability to create and customize foundational Tableau charts that support clear data analysis and storytelling. First, you’ll explore how Tableau handles data using dimensions, measures, and the Marks card. Next, you’ll discover how to build core chart types like bar charts, line graphs, tree maps, and highlight tables. Finally, you’ll learn how to add interactivity through filters, tooltips, and actions to enhance user exploration. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of essential Tableau charting needed to build insightful, interactive visualizations from your data.

Build Essential Charts in Tableau Desktop
Intermediate
1h 4m
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Troy Kranendonk
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Troy Kranendonk is a Principal Data Author with extensive experience in data analysis, business intelligence, and the art of data visualization. Troy focuses on data education, excelling in content creation and sharing his expertise to help others understand and visualize data effectively.

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