Level 1 · Entry Foundations

Goal: understand what Tableau is and how its products fit together, connect to your first data sources, build and format core chart types, combine them into an interactive dashboard, write your first calculated fields, and use filters, parameters, table calculations, and maps — then ship a small end-to-end sales performance dashboard that ties it all together.

Modules

1. What Is Tableau?
2. Connecting to Data Sources
3. Building Your First Visualization
4. Chart Types & When to Use Them
5. Building Dashboards Basics
6. Calculated Fields Basics
7. Filters & Parameters
8. Table Calculations Basics
9. Maps & Geographic Data
10. Project — Sales Performance Dashboard

By the end of this level you'll be comfortable navigating Tableau Desktop, connecting to and shaping real data, choosing the right chart for a question, building calculated fields and using filters/parameters/table calcs, and will have produced a real deliverable: a multi-sheet, interactive sales performance dashboard.