Data Visualization for Nonprofit using Tableau Public Training Course
This course is tailored for all professionals within the nonprofit sector. Its goal is to teach you how to effectively communicate data insights to a wider audience using Tableau Public.
Designed for beginners or those needing a refresher, this course guides you from the ground up through the steps required to create your first visualization. You will also master essential design principles to enhance your Tableau visualizations. Upon completion, you will possess the skills to create and share your insights with a broader audience.
Course milestones:
- Configure your Tableau Public profile.
- Connect to and manipulate your data.
- Navigate the Tableau interface.
- Construct insightful visualizations.
- Share your work with a wider audience.
Course Format:
- Interactive lectures and discussions.
- Extensive exercises and practice sessions.
- Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.
Course Outline
Introduction
- Setting up Tableau
- Overview of Tableau Software
- Navigating the Tableau User Interface
Connecting to your data
- Available data connections
- Simplifying and preparing data
- Joining database sources
- Inner, outer, left, and right join
- Blending different data sources in a single worksheet
Working with Data in Tableau
- Using multiple measures in a view
- Showing the relationship between numerical values
- Viewing specific values
- Customizing your data
- Dimension vs. Measure
- Data types, discrete versus continuous, for measure
Creating calculations in Tableau
- Row-level calculations
- Aggregate calculations
- Arithmetic, string, and date calculations
- Custom aggregations and calculated fields
- Quick table calculations
- Working with dates and times
Design Principles and how to implement them in Tableau
- Pre-attentive attributes
- Usage of the color
- Choosing the right chart
- Inclusive design
Building your first data visualization
- Tables
- Bar chart variations - bar chart, column chart, bullet charts, bar-in-bar
- Stacked bars and area charts
- Pie charts
- Scatter Plots
- Maps
Taking the most out of formatting
- Labels
- Legends
- Tooltips
- Highlighting data with reference lines
- Annotations
Telling a Data Story with Dashboards
- Dashboard framework
- Filter actions
- Parameters
- Highlight actions
- URL actions
Sharing your work with others
- Publishing your work
- Sharing options
Summary and Next Steps:
- Learning about Tableau Community
- Helpful resources for further learning
Requirements
No prior experience with Tableau or BI tools is required.
Audience:
Everyone working within nonprofit organizations.
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