About this course: Leveraging the visualizations you created in the previous course, Visual Analytics with Tableau, you will create dashboards that help you identify the story within your data, and you will discover how to use Storypoints to create a powerful story to leave a lasting impression with your audience. You will balance the goals of your stakeholders with the needs of your end-users, and be able to structure and organize your story for maximum impact. Throughout the course you will apply more advanced functions within Tableau, such as hierarchies, actions and parameters to guide user interactions. For your final project, you will create a compelling narrative to be delivered in a meeting, as a static report, or in an interactive display online.
Who is this class for: This course is primarily aimed at individuals with some fundamental data visualization knowledge, who are familiar with Tableau, and want to increase their knowledge in explanatory analysis, applying key design principles and data storytelling. This is the fourth course in a series designed for the beginner who wants to gain experience in presenting data visually. It is also appropriate for those who can analyze data and want to gain more exposure to visualization design concepts.
Taught by: Govind Acharya, Principal Analyst
Budget and Institutional Analysis
Taught by: Hunter Whitney, Sr. Consultant, Author, Instructor
Design Strategy and Data Visualization
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Course 4 of 5 in the
Data Visualization with Tableau Specialization.
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| Level | Beginner |
| Commitment | 4 weeks of study, 5-7 hours/week |
| Language | English |
| How To Pass | Pass all graded assignments to complete the course. |
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Overall, great instruction on setting up dashboards and stories in Tableau. The theoretical instruction on story building was not as helpful as the actual practice Tableau lessons.
I would have like to have seen a few more storytelling examples.
Already commented that this was a great course... please see my previous review.
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The course is well done and thought, it is not exceptional though.
It is well structured, the teachers are good, the content is good, and many tools and strategies are used to improve learning and increase retention of the contents, e.g. additional readings, in-video questions, external links, and video tutorials, in addition to the usual quizzes, assignments and peer-reviews.
I would have enjoyed more practice on the design topic.
Everything is in place, but something is missing to make the course exceptional.
For example, some of the screencasts are too short, and sometimes introduction and conclusions alone take a relevant fraction of the whole video itself. Sometimes the in-video questions are too trivial to be useful (mere repetitions of what has just appeared on the frame before).
A general comment on the Specialisation. This is last (4th) course (before the project) of the Specialisation on Data Visualisation on Tableau, I’d expected to see somewhere along the specialisation something deeper about creating complex calculated fields (e.g. explaining the usage of “fixed”, or “window” functions).