Level: Foundation (F)

Faster and more capable of handling larger datasets than Excel, Tableau is quickly becoming a valuable tool for individuals and organisations who want to leverage their data. It’s more user-friendly and simpler to learn than programming languages, but still allows a high level of customisation.
 
This virtual course will run over two afternoons. It will take you through the fundamentals of visualising data and information in Tableau. The course begins with an introduction to Tableau and an overview of what it is capable of. By the end of this course, you will be able to visualise your own data and will have learnt how to create exploratory plots, highlight important aspects of your data, and build interactive dashboards that can be shared with others.
 

Learning outcomes

• Understand how Tableau can help them gain insights from their data
• Import data into Tableau from different sources
• Create a range of basic plots
• Highlight aspects of plots to gain better insights
• Build an interactive dashboard
• Publish and share their dashboard

Topics Covered

• Introduction to Tableau: an overview of Tableau and its capabilities
• Connecting data to Tableau: reading in different types of data sources
• Basic components: creating exploratory plots and understanding the elements of a plot
• Customising and highlighting: adding customisation to highlight important aspects of the data
• Dashboards: combining plots into interactive dashboards
• Sharing dashboards: publishing and sharing work

Target Audience

This course is designed for people with no prior experience of Tableau, who want to get to grips with the basics of summarising and interactively visualising their data.
 

Prerequisite

The course will use Tableau Public, therefore attendees do not need a Tableau licence. Attendees should sign up for a Tableau Public account ahead of the course here. Tableau Public can be accessed via a desktop version (only on Mac or Windows), or through a web browser. The demonstrations during the course will use the browser version, and therefore we recommend that attendees also use the browser version. There is no need to download software before the course.

Osheen MacOscar

Osheen has a 1st Class Honours Bsc in Mathematics from Manchester Metropolitan University.  He is an aspiring data scientist who cannot wait to get started teaching and working on projects for JR.