How to Create Visualizations in Tableau | Tableau Tutorials for Beginners

[@nabilahjamal1400]

I ran into a problem on the latitude and longitude where nothing was displayed on the map. But after going through the comments, I decided that the solution to this --> after dragging postcode on the Marks field, right click on the map > Edit Locations...> change the Country/Region to United States. Hope this helps for those who encounter the same problem :)

[@ferdinanddayok6440]

Thank you!

[@gulmirakussaiynkyzy7134]

Thank you so much!

[@golugamer9121]

Good Job..

[@saniagus1]

this is what I was looking for. You are a savior

[@abioyeorimadegun7851]

Saved me sooo much... Thank you!

[@Kapczynski007]

I'm switching my career from Electrical engineer to become a Date Analyst, your videos are very insightful and educational. Thank you!

[@anycatdessai]

Aren't electrical engineers in demand due to electric vehicles and stuff?

[@geekyprogrammer4831]

Me too switching career from Electrical Engineer to Data Analyst followed by Data Scientist hopefully one day!

[@saniagus1]

on my way to do the same

[@thoth80]

Have you transitioned yet and if so please tell us your story.

[@justinnacu]

I'm switching from Mechanical Engineer to Data Analyst

[@kranthikiranjalakam428]

Just started watching the Tableau playlist and I've got to say, I love the way you deliver these tutorials. Very different from a lot of professional courses and you just seem like a really cool person having fun with the data and teaching us at the same time. Thank you for doing what you do.

[@DOAsesh]

I am loving these videos!! I am currently taking a Data Analytics certification program course through Google and I am having a lot of fun so far, while I learn the key terms and skill traits of a Data Analyst i've been learning these videos as well and Alex does a great job explaining in a simple and welcoming manner, Thanks Alex! :)

[@sj1795]

I'm SUPER grateful that you always include how to download the various files and datasets in your videos. This process often seems easy and straightforward, but I've had many times where downloading specific software or files has proved to be a real headache. As always, THANK YOU ALEX!

[@mirzaeimirzaei2807]

Hey Alex, Thanks for the videos. I had just 3 columns in Tableau for Directory database, then I realized that the delimiter in Directory is (,) and when I changed it to (#), everything worked perfectly. I thought I'd share this in case others run into a similar problem and need a clue to resolve it.

[@sarkastic_official]

Thanks man!

[@ErenKıraç-g5m]

you're lifa saver... an alternative way is selecting the directory.csv and clicking on the settings menu, then pressing text file properties and picking the comma as seperator; whole in data source menu

[@debbietownsend1673]

Alex's instruction is so clear and easy to follow!

[@EKaneGrant]

When I found out I can make big dough and work-from-home, just fuckin' around with some charts and spreadsheets, I damn near busted a nut. This series rocks, Alex the Analyst!

[@AlexTheAnalyst]

lmao

[@danilorodriguez1638]

I learn english and Tableau with your video. Thanks!

[@andreass6102]

Fun to watch and intuitive! Thank you Alex.

[@SeekTruthToday_STT]

Been waiting for this video and it finally came on my birthday🕺🕺🕺 Thank you, Sir.

[@pravinkhaire2362]

Wish you many many happy returns of the day 🎉🎉🎉

[@receponurokan7088]

When importing data csv file isn't read properly. Get into the data source tab and click the arrow sign next to the directory.csv text that appears middle of the page. Then select text field properties and choose comma instead of other on field separator. This will solve your problem.

[@Alina-tx9lq]

Omg! Thank you so much, you saved me🫶🏻

[@insidethelyrics]

You are a life saver. I was getting so frustrated! Thank you so much!

[@hotchipps4209]

Tried out other charts too. Must say it is both intriguing and interesting how we can play around and get to know different kinds of charts and where and how to use them. Looking forward for more on Tableau.

[@l.kennethwells2138]

Loving this tutorial thank you very much. I also now just realized that was a microphone in front of you. I thought it was a glass of red wine!!

[@AlexTheAnalyst]

Haha maybe it is?

[@mithranseralathan6206]

Thanks

[@AlexTheAnalyst]

Thank you my friend!

[@CristianRaoul]

Loving the content :) Thank you very much!! Small tip or at least a favour: Add the tutorial/part number to the title as well ahahahhaa

[@nathanmojsiejczuk3136]

Excellent videos Alex, i'm learning a ton

[@juanvega6027]

Came to this video because I heard there was a large pie and I like pie 😂😂 jokes aside, amazing content and walk-through. I've been re-learning Tableau and this video series has been amazing!

[@inyxng]

Thank you for always taking your time with these videos

[@mithranseralathan6206]

Thanks Alex I'm wating for the part 4 & 5, you are awesome man you are changing my life 😀

[@AlexTheAnalyst]

They're coming!

[@TableauTim]

Alex great video as always love this series. Filling a huge gap in the Tableau community. I have one bit of critical feedback which is the way you’re using show me to get some final results. It’s generally okay especially for beginners but the issue with it is it obfuscates why the charts work the way they do. For example on your pie chart to box and whisker plot click, it changed the chart but there’s probably about 8 to 10 steps it did for you including adding what tableau considers a reference line and if you don’t clock those steps it’s actually a huge blocker for so many people when they go to build this charts later down the line. As a trainer I see a lot of approaches that people have where they build a chart then use show me but then get stuck on the final mile. I have a video just highlighting this issue here kzbin.info/www/bejne/pJLPZmV5mdOgZtE but again this is meant as friendly feedback and I’m being 110% pedantic about this.

[@johnjacoby6457]

Yo I just watched that whole thing and it was awesome. Thank you!

[@liflin307]

Also whatched the whole thing, that was great! thanks for sharing and totally agree with you, show me just does too much automatically

[@midnightblue1539]

Thank you for being such a wonderful teacher

[@duhazakaria5720]

Hi Alex, thank you for the effort to deliver this amazing series. i have a question is it possible to use tableau for qualitative data?

[@Talktech101]

Thanks a lot myan 😌👌Superb following through

[@perfectnmabaso6744]

All your videos are full of clarity and are well made.

[@criscatalan4288]

Thank you so much, Alex!

[@Frank131985]

Hello Alex, I really enjoy all your video tutorials. I always try to follow along but I always run into some issues. I downloaded the data set from Keggle by clicking on the link in the description but I get maybe an update data set from when you made this video. I guess because it was a year ago. I will do my best to do as much as possible with the dataset I have. Thanks again.

[@AlexTheAnalyst]

Sorry to hear that! It's definitely possible?

[@mehmetkazanc5855]

Great video series. Thanks !

[@AyomideAdeosun_official]

Hey Alex! Thanks for the wonderful content I just decided to jump on learning data analytics and I really have no idea in what order to learn or where exactly scratch (basics ) is ...I'd appreciate if could help with what that

[@ronykeya3530]

I have learnt so much from your tutorials. Thank you so much

[@shomitarora2031]

Last viz was great👍

[@AZZOUZE1]

Thank you for the effort you do to share this awesome content it Really helps 🙏🙏🙏

[@aderojuabolaji9721]

Thank you Mann

[@siraatmedia8348]

I'm having problems at 5:38, when I load drag and drop "Postcode" only about 4 dots appear and they all are allocated in the UK. Anyone know how to solve this problem? - it seems like Tableau is not recognizing some of the post-code data

[@anycatdessai]

Same here. But its showing up in India, which is my country. Nothing comes up in the US region of the map.

[@chu1452]

lucky you, i dont see anything lol

[@anycatdessai]

@@chu1452 Try different countries, maybe the country ur in might work.

[@ssp4362]

hey so what worked for me was changing the region setting from my pc from my country to usa and restarting my pc

[@mohamednasser1407]

Hey Alex! Loving the course so far. Ran into a problem, after adding the longitude and latitude. I tried adding the postal code to "marks" but no data is showing, not dots or anything. I tried adding countries and it worked just fine. Is this a problem in the settings that I need to fix? If anyone can help it would be highly appreciated.

[@HankYang-CalgaryRealtor]

I have the same issue and i dont know how to fix it

[@hassanau5653]

I run into the same issue, so basically what happens is Tableau for some reason selects the postcode of the country you live in(that's why Alex had US map only) , and since probably your country doesn't have postcodes, it shows nothing, what I did is I dragged 'countries' under postcode, and it showed data for all the world. Hope I helped.

[@khondokarabusaleheen2279]

@@hassanau5653 this was extremely helpful, thank you!!

[@duoma8630]

@@hassanau5653 Thank you!

[@InnerStrengthExplorersYT]

@@hassanau5653 thank you

[@divyankrawat8371]

Thank you sir for these great tutorials!!

[@rahulpareek328]

Hello Alex I want my career in data analyst or business analyst but I have got research analyst offer should I accept it ? Does research analyst experience will help me to get Opportunity in data or business analyst in future? Looking forward to hearing from you.

[@zroburn3567]

Was the Webinar recorded and where can we find it?

[@TienPhan-yf8gi]

hi everyone, i have a dumb question though. How do i zoom in, zoom out the chart that he does at 12:49 ? Please help me , thank you everybody

[@TheDichou82]

Hi @alex the Analyst, i don't understand something, i dont have the same display or the directory.cvs file, it semmes aggregated in mine ( i downloaded it on the same website)...so i wasnt able to follow the same steps. i wasnt able to add postal code,etc. it seems agregated to a lot of filed, like Province,Country,etc

[@VitorAbreu1001]

Same here! I think theres a problem with Tableau reading the csv file!

[@HaydeeZ]

Can you please do a video with Days of the week.. For example if we load daily data to create visuals on the sales per day of the week. If you already have a video can you please send me the link. Thank you. Great content

[@s.daniel8016]

Thank you!

[@anoshpa-6531]

Waiting for 4th and 5th part of the series...

[@jenniferonyinyechionwubiko5030]

Hello Mr alex, The data set pasted here isn’t the same thing as the one you are using to teach. Tried to download it but it doesn’t seem to be the same data set

[@rimastat3990]

Thank you very much, it's very helpful, please how can I save tableau sheet into my PC??... I didn't find save and save as

[@AmarSingh-pf3mq]

thank you

[@brandonchau3309]

Dear Alex, In this lession, i'm not sure why doesn't show any blue circle point in map after i drag the "Postcode" into Marks, can you help? Thanks.

[@Missvinsdefraise]

Hi, Did anyone have a completely different dataset for Starbucks data? The data set I downloaded was for global + it was so messy, after importing it I had just 3 columns which I tried to split and then I ended up with an even bigger mess with values in the wrong columns... Did anyone else have this issue?

[@bogiebabes]

I am having this issue. The data set does not work for some reason

[@manikandaprabhumurugavelbo3324]

Alex does the google data analytics certificate will help us to get a job

[@kyleparsotan6799]

If I am given the start and end lat and long coord. from a tornado data set from Storm Prediction Center data archives and want to plot those data on the map, caould I do that in tableau? Can I also plot information on when the tornado crosses state and/or county lines?

[@JustAn0therSoul]

+1 For using Brave -1 For no having the Cortana Search Bar disabled

[@AlexTheAnalyst]

lol

[@NDemanuele1]

I'm a new subscriber. Just completed the Google Data Analytics Program. I'm experimenting with Tableau with some datasets. One thing I'm finding confusing is where we can place the tables to populate are visuals. For example, I can't always just randomly drag a table into the Column or Row field, or the Marks or Filters area? What are the guidelines for this? Thanks.

[@loveVII]

At around the 4:19 mark it kind of looks like NA Sales is higher than Global Sales (left side / 1980s), which shouldn't be possible. Any idea why North America is making more sales than the whole world?

[@aakilla3880]

I came to the comments wondering about this. just noticed NA sales is scaled and corresponds to the Y-axis on the right... NA sales are actually about half of global sales, which makes way more sense

[@sidharthmohanty6434]

Thank you

[@BriannaRios]

Busted up laughing with the pie chart sizing fiasco cause I was going through the same😄

[@barma1986]

Thank you a lot Alex for this video. I have a different position of postcode for my latitude and longitude cart. In my case, the postcode is located in Europe(Belgium). Could you explain to me why, please?

[@Alwaysbusy8282]

mine is in Canada. have you fixed it ?

[@nellypokam6737]

@@Alwaysbusy8282 Mine was France. I resolved that by doing right click on the map > "Edit locations... ' and choose a country from the list

[@Bjellica]

starbucks data is not being uploaded to tableau properly - I'm getting raw 1 column data, and split doesn't work well for all rows due to comma inside "..." making extra columns for some rows . any suggestions?

[@kghazi123]

Hi Alex. I only managed to display the map. The rest of the vide starting from the Postcode did not work with me. Nothing is displayed on the map. And, I did noticed that it displays >19K unknown on my screen, while on the video, your screen displays 285 unknown. I did use the provided link to download data. Please, help!

[@tnveer7]

Hello Alex, First of all, I love your content. Simple and effective. I need some help with this one. I gett error when I move from one sheet to the other when a new data is involved. For instance, if I move from directory data to vgsales, the analytics done in vgsales disappears and error msg - "worksheet unavailable, There was a problem connecting to vgdataset source, this dataset doesn't currently support editing" I also get this when i move from vgsales to directory. What do i do to fix this?

[@chefernandez563]

what did u do to fix the pie chart size edit: ctrl shift B

[@michaellilly2550]

Hey Alex, thanks as always for all your tutorials and mentoring. On your suggestion i picked up the Python for Data Analysis book from O'Reilly, (when you still listed book resources in your descriptions) but i never saw one for Tableu (or don't remember ot if i did). Now, i happened across what I think is an excellent reference in book form, and wondered if you could check it out and consider it as a possible addition to your recommended reading : "Tableau Strategies: Solving Real, Practical Problems With Data Analytics" by Ann Jackson and Luke Stanke (O'Reilly, 2021)

[@thuhuongdoi]

One of the first comments. :) Thanks, Alex

[@YomniaAlam-d1j]

I am not able to change the colours, you showed in first part. I choose a color and than assign palette than again the color than apply than ok. but it is not changing the color.

[@hvgaming2347]

Should i use mac os or stick with windows for data analyst ??? Be cool if u can make video of that 👌

[@AlexTheAnalyst]

I should make a video on that :)

[@hvgaming2347]

Thanks definitely be waiting so I can decided on my new laptop 💻

[@abdulazizrakhimov6536]

I downloaded data from kaggle, but it is different, not as in the video.

[@OritsebawoUkuejubola]

Pls ser...how can I get the data that's being used...I tried the two link dropped buh still it disentangle look like what you downloaded ser

[@pavanreddy9543]

Hi Alex, I cannot connect my SQL server to the data source in my Tableau public. It's not even showing the option of SSMS in the list of servers. Would you happen to know if I have any solution for that problem??

[@eduardkrammefernandezjulia7586]

one question, dont you have to clean the csv file before uploading it?

[@AlexTheAnalyst]

You don't

[@gamerslegion7454]

I get Visualization only for India and not for any other country any faced the same issue and know the way out ?

[@anycatdessai]

Yeah, me too. I thought I did something wrong. Maybe Sir Alex can help.

[@snehabaranwal9224]

Me too! I hope there is a solution for this if its the same data.

[@nellypokam6737]

Mine was France. I resolved that by doing right click on the map > "Edit locations... ' and choose a country from the list

[@fortuneigboanugo7166]

Hi I had done the postcode part twice and its giving very few points on the map in United Kingdom, please do you know why it's so?

[@djnature1741]

I run into the same issue, so basically what happens is Tableau for some reason selects the postcode of the country you live in(that's why Alex had US map only) , and since probably your country doesn't have postcodes, it shows nothing, what I did is I dragged 'countries' under postcode, and it showed data for all the world. Hope I helped. - From Hassan AU another commenter

[@atefeaskarianzade6853]

the data that I download is not complete, it has only 3 columns? can any body tell me what is wrong?

[@DPEART6475]

Make sure you downloaded the 2 years data

[@dimitriskerkezos4025]

Hello Alex, I downloaded the dataset starbucks but there are only 3 columns when I import the file. The field columns like province, counrty,postcode, phone number are on the same column. What I do wrong?

[@G1itch35]

He accidentally clicked on a different dataset when giving this demonstration (he was supposed to click "directory (2)" at 2:55 but clicked a different dataset). I assume you haven't done anything wrong, he just didn't end up using that starbucks data so it'll naturally look different from what is shown throughout the rest of the video.

[@naoyatatsuzawa2086]

Hello, has anybody experienced that the states/provinces aren't filled but just show dots? I'm trying to resolve the issue but haven't found how to do so.

[@langvuduy82]

drag vertical and horizontal to make more space to adding size for pie chart is so frustrated, It only show very thin unvisionable line and have to put the mouse exactly on it to drag, how they design the way zoom like that

[@DPEART6475]

Change the view from Standard to Entire View and you will get the pie chart in big size and formatted the way Alex is showing it

[@eldergod7675]

Can you make a video of the data analysis career when it will die because of ai

[@nickcavolli3072]

Theres an issue, that i have to look up how to fix now. From the last video we created a BIN… thats now auto formatting the new data in worksheet 3.

[@nickcavolli3072]

Could be wrong but looked up solution and Dashboard>Actions… but actions is grayed out. So maybe that action is unavailable on the free version.

[@pulakkabir2276]

where can i get country data file?

[@bhautiktrambadia]

How come NA sales is more then global ? I mean global always more then a particular region. 4.56

[@MamaMia914]

Uhm.. nothing happens when I add the postcode or State/Province to the Marks.

[@samuelraj5613]

Done

[@KroutAr]

Data visualization depends on personal logic and creativity. Like there is no actual preference for these.

[@FireJach]

The Starbucks data is broken. Everything is in two columns. I am trying to split it off for myself. Damn it, comma isn't a good separator because it's used as adress so I can split everything properly.

[@blackwhite2361]

I have a question. I'm in the market for a new Laptop and i was wondering if Microsoft has a version of SSRS/SSIS/SSAS for Mac. I know you can get SSMS for Mac but what about those three....Cos those three are important for my Data Reporting learning path

[@Nick-du9ss]

I am currently pursuing mba in business analytics Does data analyst is ideal job role for me on the basis of my degree ?????

[@AlexTheAnalyst]

For sure

[@Scallonesi]

To be honest, Tableau seems to be very limited compared to Power BI.

[@nickcavolli3072]

Kamala Harris enters the chat:” Im a fan of pie charts 🤣😂 Raise you hand if you like pie charts!”😂😂🤣😂

[@tyagiaman727]

Looks like you are also learning Tableau. Even you don't have any idea what you're doing 😂

[@shomitarora2031]

Pie chart in this case is bad choice

[@922hasekrocks]

Dear Alex, Abu Dhabi is not in the United States. Did you make a mistake?

[@ghassanhammad855]

watching this from Palestine, my man right here saying "Exciting news, in 2 days, 7th of October"

[@eishawave3934]

Thanks