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Decisions, Decisions: Dashboards and Reports

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Advance your analytical capabilities. This course guides you through applying stakeholder needs, creating impactful BI visuals, and designing effective reporting tools, including interactive dashboards. You will learn to monitor data and answer critical business questions over time. This is the third course in the Google Business Intelligence Certificate, a series designed to prepare you for a business intelligence role.

Syllabus

  • Business intelligence visualizations
    • Introduction to Course 3
    • Terrence: A day in the life as a BI analyst
    • Course 3 overview
    • Welcome to module 1
    • Data visualization in business intelligence
    • Empower stakeholders
    • Dashboard examples
    • Practice Quiz: Test your knowledge: Data visualizations and dashboards
    • Plan a dashboard using mockups
    • Practice Quiz: Activity: Design a data visualization mockup
    • Activity Exemplar: Design a data visualization mockup
    • Dashboard missteps and how to avoid them
    • Refresh your Tableau skills
    • Visualization tool resources
    • Balance tool limitations and user expectations
    • Take a tour of Tableau
    • Practice Quiz: Test your knowledge: Planning a dashboard
    • Wrap-up
    • Glossary terms from course 3, module 1
    • Graded Quiz: Module 1 challenge
    • Why data visualization matters
  • Visualize results
    • Welcome to module 2
    • Design trade-offs when building a dashboard
    • Compare scope in different contexts
    • DeAndrea: Business intelligence in action
    • Case study: Allegis Group - Visualizing key data to understand and advance employee performance
    • Start a chart
    • Design resource guide
    • How to choose the right chart type for your data
    • Practice Quiz: Activity: Create a chart in Tableau
    • Activity Exemplar: Create a chart in Tableau
    • Practice Quiz: Test your knowledge: Communicate clearly with visuals
    • Organize dashboard elements
    • Practice Quiz: Activity: Lay out dashboard elements in Tableau
    • Activity Exemplar: Lay out dashboard elements in Tableau
    • Processing speeds and privacy settings
    • Reduce processing load and maintain dashboard effectiveness
    • Case study: FeatureBase: Exploring the trends with visualizations
    • Privacy settings in business intelligence tools
    • Practice Quiz: Test your knowledge: Considerations when laying out a dashboard
    • Wrap-up
    • Glossary terms from course 3, module 2
    • Graded Quiz: Module 2 challenge
    • Aggregate data for analysis
    • Discover data formats
    • Data visualizations with Tableau
    • Tableau dashboard basics
    • [Optional] Effective data visualizations
    • [Optional] Design thinking for visualization improvement
  • Automate and monitor
    • Welcome to module 3
    • Complete a dashboard project
    • Potential pain points when long-term monitoring
    • Andrea: Power of a BI specialist
    • Role-play with a stakeholder
    • Prepare your project
    • Data-driven charts
    • Erica: How BI tools are put to work
    • Email from your supervisor: Chart design
    • Practice Quiz: Activity: Create your charts
    • Activity Exemplar: Create your charts
    • Well-organized dashboards
    • Email from your supervisor: Dashboard organization
    • Practice Quiz: Activity: Create your dashboard
    • Activity Exemplar: Create your dashboard
    • Dashboard iteration
    • Email from your supervisor: Redirections and shifts in scope
    • Email from your coworker: Iteration tips
    • Practice Quiz: Activity: Iterate on your dashboard
    • Activity Exemplar: Iterate on your dashboard
    • Wrap-up
    • Graded Quiz: Module 3 challenge
  • Present business intelligence insights
    • Welcome to module 4
    • Present your insights
    • Business intelligence presentation examples
    • Case study: Ipsos - Informing stakeholders with compelling data visualizations
    • Practice Quiz: Activity: Design a slide deck for a business intelligence presentation
    • Activity Exemplar: Design a slide deck for a business intelligence presentation
    • The business intelligence professional hiring process
    • Use prediction for better collaboration
    • Heather: Personal career journey into BI
    • Incorporate business intelligence work in your portfolio
    • Wrap-up
    • Glossary terms from module 4
    • Graded Quiz: Module 4 challenge
    • Compelling presentation tips
    • [Optional] Review Google Data Analytics Certificate content about creating a resume
  • Course 3 end-of-course project
    • Welcome to module 5
    • Complete your end-of-course project
    • Explore Course 3 end-of-course workplace scenarios
    • Course 3 end-of-course project overview: Cyclistic
    • Practice Quiz: Activity: Build a dashboard for Cyclistic
    • Activity Exemplar: Build a dashboard for Cyclistic
    • Course 3 End-of-course project overview: Google Fiber
    • Practice Quiz: Activity: Build a dashboard for Google Fiber
    • Activity Exemplar: Build a dashboard for Google Fiber
    • Course wrap-up
    • Tony: Career-building strategies
    • Graded Quiz: Assess your Course 3 end-of-course project
    • Incorporate your project into your portfolio
    • Create your online portfolio
    • Introduction to AI for business intelligence
    • Myles: Driving impact with AI in the workplace
    • Use generative AI to help you work smarter and faster
    • Boost your data analytics skills with AI
    • Clean and prepare data with help from AI
    • Organize data and build formulas using AI
    • Use AI to help you ask more effective questions
    • Create engaging data visualizations with AI
    • Improve your R code with help from AI
    • Practice Quiz: Activity: Use AI to write a project requirements document
    • Key takeaways from AI in business intelligence
    • Introducing Google AI Essentials
    • Take the next step with Google AI Essentials
  • Put your Google Business Intelligence Certificate to work
    • Congratulations on completing the Google Business Intelligence Certificate!
    • Business Intelligence Certificate glossary
    • Showcase your work
    • Claim your Google Business Intelligence Certificate badge
    • Program recap
    • Resources for Google Business Intelligence Certificate graduates
    • Course 3 resources and citations

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