Overview

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In Advanced Data Visualization and Reporting, you’ll build the skills to turn complex data into clear, interactive dashboards, reports, and stories that help people make better decisions. This course is designed to feel different from a traditional course. Instead of moving through content in a fixed order, you’ll learn through the kinds of skills and job tasks you would see in a real data analytics, business intelligence, or reporting role. You’ll start by checking what you already know, then focus your time on the skills you want to strengthen. If you already have experience with a topic, you can move ahead. If a skill is new to you, you can review targeted lessons curated from expert instructors. Each lesson is selected to help you build a specific workplace skill, so your learning stays focused and practical. By the end of the course, you’ll be able to build and improve BI dashboards, design reports that are clear and responsive, and communicate insights through effective visualizations and data stories. These skills can help you prepare for roles such as Data Analyst, Business Intelligence Analyst, Reporting Analyst, Analytics Consultant, or Dashboard Developer.

Syllabus

Start Here: Get Oriented and Check Your Skills

Start here to learn how this skill-based course works and find your recommended starting point. You’ll take a short, ungraded diagnostic to check your current skills, then decide whether to go directly to the graded skill assessments or review targeted learning content first.

Job Task 1: Build Interactive Dashboards in Qlik Sense

Use this module to build the skills for the job task Build Interactive Dashboards in Qlik Sense. You'll learn how to construct a data model with relationships, hierarchies, and calculated fields, apply advanced analytical functions to derive metrics and KPIs, add interactive features that guide users through exploration, and manage the deployment and access lifecycle of the finished dashboards. Review the lessons that match the skills you want to strengthen before completing the related graded assessment.

Job Task 2: Design and Optimize Dashboards in Tableau

Use this module to build the skills for the job task Design and Optimize Dashboards in Tableau. You'll learn how to design dashboard layouts that follow information hierarchy principles and serve user needs, and how to apply performance optimization techniques that keep dashboards fast and responsive at production scale. Review the lessons that match the skills you want to strengthen before completing the related graded assessment.

Job Task 3: Visualize Data and Tell Data Stories

Use this module to build the skills for the job task Visualize Data and Tell Data Stories. You'll learn how to compare distributions across groups using advanced statistical plots in Python, select the right visualization type for a specific analytical insight, apply visual design principles to create clear and impactful presentation materials, and structure a compelling narrative for data presentations, dashboards, and reports. Review the lessons that match the skills you want to strengthen before completing the related graded assessment.

Wrap Up: Review Your Skill Achievement and Choose Your Next Path

Review the skills you practiced and demonstrated in this course, then prepare to describe them in career-relevant ways. You’ll also explore recommended skill paths that can help you continue building related job-ready skills.