Advanced Data Visualization and Tableau | Austin

About this class

We live in a world with overwhelming amounts of data. In this workshop you'll learn how to get the most out of this data using Tableau's specialized Visual Analytics software.

In this class, we will dive deeper into chart types learned in the intro class, understanding how to customize them to meet their needs. We will also discuss chart selection and understanding which type of business problem should use which type of chart.

Learn to understand data setup/cleaning in order to prepare data for analysis and build interactive dashboards that answer a variety of business problems.

Takeaways

• Conduct a “cradle to grave” analysis including: finding data, cleaning it, analyzing it, and presenting it via dashboards
• Understand what types of charts / dashboards should be use given a specific business problem
• Ability to discuss which tools are best for which types of analysis (excel, Tableau Desktop, Tableau Server, etc.)
• Understand how Tableau fits within the larger enterprise setup for analytics, and how they can use it to further their own careers and analyses tomorrow

Prereqs & Preparation

Please bring a laptop with Microsoft Excel, as well as Tableau Public installed (public.tableau.com)

It's not required, but we suggest you take the Intro class prior to this class: http://ga.co/1Qa0lea