Storytelling with Data Using Tableau

Course ID #: 0360-756-DC-W

Hours: 14

Course Description:

Course Content

This course teaches participants how to effectively find and communicate insights in data, with a focus on context, design, communication, and automation. Class will include time for workshopping with your own data to make improvements and create more impactful data-driven narratives.

At Course Completion:

After competing this course, student will be able to:

• Understand how to get the right context for any analysis

• Understand what kinds of analyses to do

• Understand common pitfalls of data visualization and storytelling

• Understand best practices of data visualization and storytelling

• Understand how to tell a story that drives action

  
  

  Target Student: Anyone needing to create reports or documents so others can understand the results of their data analysis.

  
  

  Prerequisites:

  All students should have prior experience working with data visualization and corporate reporting.

  Topics:

  
  

• Obtaining context and tying analyses back to key business metrics

  
  

• Common pitfalls of data visualization

  
  

• Best practices of data visualization

  
  

• Using the 5 types of analyses

  • Trends and patterns over time

  • Distributions of data

  • Correlations between variables

  • Geographical and spatial relationships

  • Outliers

• Understanding story structure and how to create a data story

  
  

• Adding emotional impacts to drive action and change

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