Overview

Learn how to build engaging and interactive Tableau dashboards to answer business questions. Start with an overview of data visualization best practices, including visual encodings, chart junk, and accessibility. Then dive into Tableau, from connecting to your first data source to creating interactive visualizations. Manipulate data and plots using hierarchies, dual axes, and calculated fields. Tell compelling stories using Tableau dashboards and story points. In the final project, you will build Tableau visualizations to answer key questions about a selection of datasets.

Syllabus

Design Principles for Effective Data Visualizations Overview

Get introduced to the core ideas behind effective data visualization, including design principles, common chart types, and how visuals support storytelling with data.

Plot Types and When to Use Them

Learn how to choose the right visualizations for exploring data or communicating insights, from histograms to time series to side-by-side bar charts.

Data Visualization Design Integrity

Apply design principles to make your data visualizations clear, effective, and trustworthy.

Using Color and Additional Encodings

Use color, shape, and size to highlight patterns, emphasize insights, and support accessible data communication.

Design Principles for Effective Data Visualizations Review

Review the key ideas behind effective data visualizations and reflect on how principles like chart selection and clarity support strong data storytelling.

Getting Started with Tableau

Get started with Tableau by installing the software, connecting to datasets, and preparing your workspace for analysis.

Getting Started with Tableau Visualizations

Learn how to build and save your first Tableau visualizations using dimensions, measures, and calculated fields.

Getting Started with Tableau Review

Recap how Tableau organizes data and visualizations, including key components like rows, columns, and calculated fields, as you reflect on your first experience using the tool.

Working with Core Chart Types Overview

Get a preview of essential Tableau features—like marks, filters, and chart types—that will support deeper exploration and more advanced visualizations.

Aggregations and Granularity in Tableau

Learn how to control aggregation and granularity in Tableau to create more insightful visualizations.

Using Hierarchies for Drill-Down Analysis

Build interactive visualizations by drilling into custom and automatic hierarchies in Tableau.

Customizing Marks and Filters for Insightful Visuals

Use marks and filters in Tableau to focus your visuals and highlight insights.

Choosing and Customizing Chart Types in Tableau

Build a range of effective chart types in Tableau and customize them for clarity and impact.

Advanced Grouping and Calculations

Create custom metrics and dynamic data groupings in Tableau using calculated fields, table calculations, groups, and sets.

Working with Core Chart Types Review

Recap the essential Tableau concepts introduced in this lesson, including marks, filters, chart types, hierarchies, and grouping—reinforcing your understanding before diving deeper in future modules.

Creating Interactive Dashboards and Stories Overview

Explore how dashboards and stories can bring multiple views of your data together, setting the stage for interactivity, deeper analysis, and compelling communication in Tableau.

Creating Custom Dashboards

Build and customize dashboards in Tableau to bring together key charts, metrics, and layout elements for data storytelling.

Interactive and Responsive Dashboard Design

Build engaging dashboards with filters, highlights, mobile layouts, and intentional design that guides decision-making.

From Exploration to Communication

Learn how to guide an audience through your insights with explanatory dashboards and Tableau Stories that communicate data clearly and persuasively.

Creating Interactive Dashboards and Stories Review

Reflect on how interactive dashboards and stories can enhance your data communication and prepare you to apply your Tableau skills with purpose and clarity.