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Visualize and present your data findings effectively. This course shows how data visualizations, like visual dashboards, bring data to life. Explore Tableau, a data visualization platform, to create impactful presentations. Get instruction from Google data analysts, including hands-on activities, to equip you with essential data visualization skills. This is the sixth course in the Google Data Analytics Certificate, a series designed to prepare you for an introductory-level data analyst role.

Syllabus

  • Visualize data
    • Introduction to communicating data insights
    • Course 6 overview
    • Kevin: The power's in the data viz
    • Why data visualization matters
    • Effective data visualizations
    • Connect images with data
    • The beauty of visualizing
    • A recipe for a powerful visualization
    • Correlation and causation
    • Dynamic visualizations
    • The wonderful world of visualizations
    • Data grows on decision trees
    • Practice Quiz: Self-Reflection: Choose your visualization type
    • Practice Quiz: Test your knowledge on data visualizations
    • Elements of art
    • Principles of design
    • Data visualization impact
    • Data is beautiful
    • Design thinking and visualizations
    • [Optional] Design thinking for visualization improvement
    • Practice Quiz: Test your knowledge on designing data visualizations
    • Pro tips for highlighting key information
    • Accessible visualizations
    • Andrew: Making data accessible
    • Design a chart in 60 minutes
    • Practice Quiz: Hands-On Activity: Create your own visualization
    • Practice Quiz: Test your knowledge on exploring data visualizations
    • Glossary terms from module 1
    • Graded Quiz: Module 1 challenge
  • Create data visualizations with Tableau
    • Data visualizations with Tableau
    • Tableau Public and other online tools
    • Begin to use Tableau Public
    • Meet Tableau
    • Visualizations in spreadsheets and Tableau
    • Create a data visualization in Tableau
    • Practice Quiz: Hands-On Activity: Create a data visualization in Tableau
    • Optional: Using Tableau Desktop
    • Optimize the color palette in data visualization
    • Essential design principles
    • Bonus Guide: Additional insights on selecting the right data visualization
    • Practice Quiz: Self-Reflection: Select visuals and charts
    • Get creative
    • Practice Quiz: Test your knowledge on creating visualizations in Tableau
    • Link multiple datasets in Tableau
    • Practice Quiz: Hands-On Activity: Link multiple datasets in Tableau
    • Tableau resources for combining multiple data sources
    • Glossary terms from module 2
    • Graded Quiz: Module 2 challenge
  • Craft data stories
    • Craft stories with data
    • Bring ideas to life
    • Effective data stories
    • Speak to your audience
    • Carolyn: Data journalism
    • Practice Quiz: Test your knowledge on data-driven stories
    • Tableau dashboard basics
    • Live and static insights
    • From filters to charts
    • Practice Quiz: Hands-On Activity: Create, filter, and customize charts
    • Create your first Tableau dashboard
    • Practice Quiz: Hands-On Activity: Build a dashboard in Tableau
    • Practice Quiz: Test your knowledge on using Tableau dashboards
    • Compelling presentation tips
    • Share a narrative
    • Practice Quiz: Hands-On Activity: Practice presenting
    • Sundas: How to manage imposter syndrome
    • Practice Quiz: Test your knowledge on sharing data stories
    • Glossary terms from module 3
    • Graded Quiz: Module 3 challenge
  • Develop presentations and slideshows
    • Pull it all together
    • Present with a framework
    • Weave data into your presentation
    • Review a slide presentation
    • Brittany: Presentation skills for new data analysts
    • Step-by-Step: Critique of a presentation
    • Connor: Messy example of a data presentation
    • Connor: Good example of a data presentation
    • Proven presentation tips
    • Practice Quiz: Self-Reflection: Examples of great presentations
    • Guide: Share data findings in presentations
    • Evaluate your presentation
    • Present like a pro
    • Practice Quiz: Test your knowledge on presentation skills and practices
    • Prepare for the Q&A
    • Anticipate the question
    • Handle objections
    • Practice Quiz: Self-Reflection: Practice handling objections
    • Practice Quiz: Test your knowledge on caveats and limitations to data
    • Q&A best practices
    • Connor: Becoming an expert data translator
    • Practice Quiz: Test your knowledge on listening, responding, and including
    • Glossary terms from module 4
    • Graded Quiz: Module 4 challenge
    • Course 6 glossary
    • Congratulations! Course wrap-up
    • Coming up next...
    • Course 6 resources and citations

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