Data Visualisation: Creating charts and complex visualisations in Tableau

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Course Features

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Duration

4 weeks

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Delivery Method

Online

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Available on

Lifetime Access

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Accessibility

Mobile, Desktop

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Language

English

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Subtitles

English

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Level

Intermediate

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Effort

4 hours per week

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Teaching Type

Self Paced

Course Description

Find out how to identify the best metrics for data dashboards. Also, learn how to identify the most efficient components to help you tell data stories using beautiful visualisations.

This course is the second part in the Data Visualisation ExpertTrack. It will help you to put theory into practice.

This course will teach you how to create interactive dashboards with Tableau.

With Tableau, you'll be able to learn both the strategic and practical steps to effectively communicate your insights to key stakeholders and audiences.

You must choose the right metrics to tell the right story.

This aspect of data visualisation directly affects the types of charts, output, and components you will work with, as well as the effectiveness of your dashboards.

It is crucial that everyone in your organization can read and understand data dashboards. This will ensure their effectiveness.

This course will teach you how to assess your dashboards for accessibility, and how to make adjustments to make sure that every reader is satisfied.

After your data visualisations are created, you will need a plan to distribute them across the company at the correct time and at the appropriate levels.

This course will help you make informed decisions about when and how to release information.

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Skills You Will Gain

Prerequisites/Requirements

During the course we’ll be using Tableau Public and Excel. If you don’t have Excel, you might find this online version useful

We recommend you use a computer to access this course.

What You Will Learn

Identify key business metrics to prepare operational dashboards

Identify dashboard layout components

Evaluate the accessibility of dashboards

Assess stakeholder requirements

Prepare strategies to deploy dashboards in an organisation

Target Students

This course is for professionals who wish to build their data visualisation skills to successfully meet the demands of their roles or to progress into new opportunities

Business professionals looking to progress in their current role

Career starters wanting to develop their data visualisation capabilities to increase their chances of meaningful career progression and promotion

Business or arts graduates who want to enter a professional role by adding quantitative skills, including data visualisation techniques and predictive modelling

Course Instructors

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Alastair Gill

Instructor

Alastair has over 15 years of experience in data science, across business and academia as a researcher, speaker, mentor, consultant and software engineer.
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