Business Analyst with Tableau

Career Path: From zero to job-ready in 3 months

Equip yourself with the Tableau skills you need to start your career as a business analyst. In this path, you'll learn practical skills, including SQL, Excel, and Tableau. By the end, you'll know how to build powerful data visualizations, analyze data, share insights with audiences, and make data-driven decisions.

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  • Beginner friendly
  • 3 months (5 hrs/week)
  • Self paced
  • 14 Courses
  • 10 projects

Path overview

You'll learn the fundamentals of data analysis in Excel, including how to explore and extract data from datasets using SQL. You'll also learn how to build informative data visualizations using a variety of chart types, as well as how to present insights to audiences using Tableau. Best of all, you'll learn by doing - you'll practice and get feedback directly in the browser. You'll apply your skills to several guided projects with realistic business scenarios to build your portfolio and prepare for your next interview. By the end of the career path, you'll be ready for the official Tableau Desktop Specialist Certification, an in-demand assessment that certifies your skills in Tableau.

Excel skills you'll learn

  • ✓ Using foundational math and statistics for data analysis
  • ✓ Retrieving and manipulating data from databases using SQL
  • ✓ Importing, preparing, analyzing, and summarizing data using Excel
  • ✓ Conveying insights effectively to tell a story using Tableau

Business Analyst with Tableau path outline

3 steps · 14 courses

Part 1: Introduction to Data Analysis with Excel [5 courses]

Learn how to analyze data with Microsoft Excel.

Part 2: Fundamentals of SQL [5 courses]

Learn about working with data in a SQL database.

Part 3: Data Visualization with Tableau [4 courses]

Learn to model, explore, analyze, and visualize data using Tableau.

Excel projects you'll build

10 hands-on projects across the path

Project

Customers and Products Analysis Using SQL

For this project, you'll step into the role of a data analyst at a scale model car company. You'll use SQL skills like joins and subqueries to explore a sales database and provide data-driven answers to key business questions about inventory, customers, and marketing.

39 min
Project

Guided Project — Data Prep in Tableau

For this project, you'll act as a data analyst for Dataquest to prepare their online learning platform data for analysis. You'll connect to Excel data, import tables into Tableau, and define table relationships to build a data model for uncovering insights on student engagement and performance.

16 min
Project

Preparing Data with Excel

For this project, you'll take on the role of a data professional in a marine biology research organization. You'll use Excel to import, organize and clean a dataset on shark attacks, preparing it for an analysis team to study trends in attack location and frequency over time.

56 min
Project

Identifying Customers Likely to Churn for a Telecommunications Provider

For this project, you'll act as a data analyst for a telecommunications company. You'll use Excel to explore customer data and build profiles of those likely to churn, applying statistics, PivotTables and charts.

56 min
Project

Visualizing the Answer to Stock Questions Using Spreadsheet Charts

For this project, you'll step into the shoes of a business analyst to explore historical stock market data using Excel. By applying information design concepts, you'll create compelling visualizations and craft an insightful report - building in-demand skills for communicating data-driven insights.

85 min

+ 5 more projects throughout the path

Learning resources for Excel

Earn your Business Analyst with Tableau Certificate

Add this Excel certificate to your resume or LinkedIn to showcase your skills and stand out in job applications.

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Work with real data from day one with interactive lessons and hands-on exercises.

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Aaron Melton
Aaron Melton
Business Analyst at Aditi Consulting

Dataquest starts at the most basic level, so a beginner can understand the concepts. I tried learning to code before, using Codecademy and Coursera. I struggled because I had no background in coding, and I was spending a lot of time Googling. Dataquest helped me actually learn.

Jessica Ko
Jessica Ko
Machine Learning Engineer at Twitter

I liked the interactive environment on Dataquest. The material was clear and well organized. I spent more time practicing then watching videos and it made me want to keep learning.

Victoria E. Guzik
Victoria E. Guzik
Associate Data Scientist at Callisto Media

I really love learning on Dataquest. I looked into a couple of other options and I found that they were much too handhold-y and fill in the blank relative to Dataquest's method. The projects on Dataquest were key to getting my job. I doubled my income!

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