Data Visualization and Communication with Tableau by Duke University (Coursera)
Duke University offers this Data Visualization using Tableau course as part of its Excel to MySQL: Analytic Techniques for Business Specialization. This course's purpose is to enable students to become experts at explaining the business-relevant practical implications of their data studies. It teaches them how to simplify their analysis by asking the correct questions and how to utilize Tableau to communicate key findings. Students learn storyboarding techniques as well as how to depict the outcomes of data analysis or machine learning models in Tableau so that both technical and non-technical stakeholders can understand them.
Tableau is the market's most popular visualization tool. This course looks at many Tableau capabilities that may be used to produce effective visuals that communicate conclusions clearly and immediately. The course is expected to take around 25 hours to complete over the course of 5 weeks. It includes a peer-reviewed final project that evaluates a student's subject learning. The following topics are covered in the course:
- Creating graphs that are used in business analysis
- Transforming data in Tableau
- Designing business dashboards with Tableau
- Creating and delivering compelling business presentations
- How to craft the right questions to ensure your analysis projects succeed
- Writing calculations and equations in Tableau
- Adapting visualizations to make them maximally communicative
Key Highlights
- Understand how to structure your data analysis projects to ensure that they lead to actionable advice that can be presented to stakeholders
- Learn to communicate results and implications of your quantitative analyses visually in a way that non-technical people can understand
- Publish online business dashboards with Tableau
- Learn a set of tools and concepts that you can use to optimize your visualizations and your presentation style
- Series of practice exercises that involves doing analyses on a sample data set
Duration : Approx. 25 hours
Coursera Rating : 4.7/5.0
Enroll here: coursera.org/learn/analytics-tableau
