Learn business intelligence with Tableau to share insights across your organization & make better decisions.

THREE DAY ONLINE WORKSHOP | 8:30AM–12:30PM

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WORKSHOP REGISTRATION

Industry Registration—$850

Academic Registration

Faculty, Staff, and Post-Docs qualify for an educational rate of $500

Students qualify for a rate of $350. Please email qi-seminarseries@eng.ucsd.edu a picture of your student ID to receive a unique code to access the student rate.

WORKSHOP OVERVIEW

Who is this for? Faculty, Staff, Students, Researchers, Managers, Developers, Data Analysts, and others at all levels of experience with an interest in data visualization concepts and technologies.

With the growing amount of data available to every organization, analysts must translate data into accountability, measure progress against goals, and leverage data for decision making. Dashboards are used to present and analyze organizational data to disseminate important information through visual methods for efficiency, competitiveness, and discovery.

This course will teach dashboards and data visualization technologies, using an approach that will include theory as well as a significant hands-on component utilizing the Tableau tool. Attendees will learn how to design and build dashboards, as well as create content of different types that can be incorporated into dashboards.

WORKSHOP MATERIAL

Software: Students will learn to use Tableau to visualize data. Students are expected to register and download the Tableau desktop tool at: https://www.tableau.com/academic/students prior to starting the course.

No textbook is required for this course; however, the following resource will build on many of the course’s key concept:

Steve Wexler, Andy Cotgreave, Jeffrey Shaffer (2017): The Big Book of Dashboards: Visualizing Your Data Using Real-World Business Scenarios; ISBN-10: 1119282713; ISBN-13: 978-1119282716

Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic (2015): Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals; ISBN-10: 1119002257

Ryan Sleeper, (2018): Practical Tableau; ISBN-13: 978-1491977316

WORKSHOP TOPICS

● Intro to Data Viz, BI and Dashboard

● Tableau Overview, Vocabulary & User Interface Overview

● Building Visuals with “Show Me”

● Data Connections & The Data Tab

● Filtering & Sorting

● Grouping, Hierarchies & Sets

● Calculations & Parameters

● Dashboard Building Basics

● Maps

● Formatting Sheets & Dashboards

● Dashboard Actions (Filters, Highlights, URL)

● Dashboard Objects & Full Build

● Hands-on Project Capstone

● Final Discussion, Overview, and Presentations