Essential Dashboarding & Storytelling Techniques

Overview

This intermediate Tableau course is recommended to learners with some Tableau knowledge. In it, we'll identify basic chart types and when to use them. Then we'll understand typical dashboard-flow techniques and understand how to implement them to guide your viewer from one chart to the next. We'll then start to understand how to use charts to compare values, visualize distributions, and we'll use filters and parameters to make cohesive and interactive dashboards. Photo by Bilal Mansuri on Unsplash

Syllabus

Comparing Values & Relating Parts of Data to the Whole

In this module, we'll begin by comparing values to each other and relating parts of the data to the whole. From there, we'll move on to visualizing distribution and learn some more complex types of visualization.

Telling a Story with Data

In this module, we'll learn some dashboarding best practices and leverage shapes, formatting, and patterns to help your viewers better interpret your dashboards.