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Data Visualization in Tableau (Udacity)

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Data Visualization in Tableau (Udacity)

Learn the fundamentals of data visualization and practice communicating with data. This course covers how to apply design principles, human perception, color theory, and effective storytelling with data. If you present data to others, aspire to be a business analyst or data scientist, or if you’d like to become more effective with visualization tools, then you can grow your skills with this course.

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Data visualization skills are tremendously important in today’s data driven economy. Collecting and analysing data is just one step; to communicate your results to clients or your managers, you need to present the data in a coherent and intuitive way. Charts or graphs allow the human brain to visualize and understand large amounts of complex data.
This course will teach you to use data visualization to explore and understand data, and then communicate insights in a powerful and meaningful ways.
This course uses Tableau to create data visualizations. A 6-month educational license for Tableau is included free for Nanodegree students only.
This course is part of both the Business Analyst and Data Analyst Nanodegree Programs.

What You Will Learn

Lesson 1
Data Visualization Fundamentals

  • Learn why visualization is so important in analytics.
  • Learn about exploratory versus explanatory visualizations.
  • Get introduced to data types and ways to encode data.

Lesson 2
Design Principles

  • Use chart type, color, size, and shape to get the most out of data visualizations.
  • Learn about the importance of limiting the amount of data presented in an analysis.
  • Learn to use data with integrity.

Lesson 3
Creating Visualizations with Tableau

  • Do basic functions in Tableau, like inputting data and building charts.
  • Learn to use colors, shapes, and other tools to dig deep into data.
  • Learn to use calculations to create new data columns.

Lesson 4
Telling Stories with Tableau

  • Build Tableau dashboards.
  • Create visualizations to tell stories with data.

Prerequisites and Requirements
No programming experience required.
Interested in using data to make better business decisions.
Tableau license (provided to Nanodegree students at no cost).

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