Design Your Data: Tableau Bootcamp Series | Washington, D.C.

Data

Washington, D.C. Campus

GA D.C.
509 7th Street NW, 3rd Floor
Washington D.C. 20004

Past Locations for this Workshop Series

London

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About this workshop series

Data visualisations are a critical business tool. Students will learn how powerful a tool like Tableau can be to showcase data in a visually insightful manner.

Students will sign up for a free trial of Tableau Desktop and be given a large data set for hands-on training throughout the bootcamp. Together, we'll walk through the analytics workflow with a real world case study, using Tableau to build a dashboard to tell an insightful story.

We will cover:

Connecting to data
Measures v. Dimensions
Tableau Tips and Tricks
Filters, Parameters and Calculations
Fundamentals of Data Visualization
Creating Dashboards in Tableau
Maps with Tableau
Customisation
Publishing with Tableau
Tableau Desktop vs. Tableau Web vs. Tableau Reader

Takeaways

Use the analytics workflow using Tableau using a sample real world case study
Understand and use a variety of Tableau functionalities to build a sample dashboard
Understand data visualisation concepts and fundamental principles
Learn how a tool like Tableau can be used to perform analytics on real world-data

Prereqs & Preparation

Student must bring a laptop with Tableau pre-installed. A free trial is available from http://www.tableau.com
Complimentary tea & coffee are provided. We recommend bringing a packed lunch, or there is a Pret downstairs, a Tesco around the corner and Spitalfields Market a 5min walk away from GA London's campus.