In today’s data-driven business world, the ability to characterize and communicate practical implications of quantitative analyses to any stakeholders becomes a crucial skill to master at the workplace.

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In this course, you will learn how to become a master at communicating business-relevant implications of data analyses using Tableau. This course investigates visual analytics and related concepts with Tableau through the completion of real-world case studies.

Course Highlights:

• Business intelligence overview:

  • what is business intelligence?

  • why it is important to business?

  • what is tableau? why Tableau?

• Tableau Workspace:

  • navigate the Tableau interface

  • high level overview of Tableau functionality

• Data Connection/Types:

  • connect to data file/database

  • build table relationships

  • make data extraction

• Create Tables, Charts, Graphs:

  • detailed steps to create various charts, maps, scatterplots, waterfall etc. as dashboard components

• Organize Data with Sort, Filter, Group & Set

• Field Calculation, Table Calculation, Level of Details (LOD)

  • field calculation: mathematical, string, date, logical operations

  • table calculation: aggregation, percentage, difference, running total etc.

  • LOD: FIX, EXCLUDE, INCLUDE

• Parameters and dynamic calculated fields:

  • walk through the different techniques to build interactivity using parameters

• Data source Joins, Blending, Unions

• Dashboard Design Principles and checklist:

  • main principles of dashboarding from design prospective

• Tableau Dashboard & Story: combine the components into a compelling data stories

• Implement efficiency tips and tricks

• Build dashboards and make impacts with two real-world examples

Hands-on Projects

The final part of the course has two hands-on project where you use Tableau to create your own interactive visualization dashboards. Save your project to the Tableau Public website and you'll have a project you can show potential employers.

• COVID-19 tracking project

• Boeing Market Outlook 2020-2039 project