This course is part of the Data Visualisation ExpertTrack
Data Visualisation: Communicate Key Metrics Throughout Your Business
Learn the fundamentals of data visualisation and storytelling to boost your career options.
- Duration4 weeks
- Weekly study4 hours
- Included in an ExpertTrackCourse 2 of 3
Data Visualisation: Communicate Key Metrics Throughout Your Business
Struggling to turn data insights into action within your organisation?
Learn how to identify the right metrics to add to data dashboards and identify the most effective components to help you tell data stories through beautiful visualisations.
As the second part of the Data Visualisation ExpertTrack, this course will take you from theory into practice.
You’ll build the skills you need to create interactive dashboards using Tableau.
You’ll learn the practical and strategic steps needed to successfully present and communicate insights to a range of audiences and key stakeholders with Tableau.
Identify key business metrics to create effective data visualisations
If you want to tell the right data story, you need to choose the right metrics.
This part of the data visualisation process directly impacts the types of charts, components, and output you’ll work with, and the overall effectiveness of your dashboards.
Review your data visualisation layouts for accessibility
Ensuring that every member of your organisation can easily read and understand data dashboards is essential for their effectiveness.
You’ll learn how to evaluate your dashboards for accessibility and make changes to ensure that you can make an impact with every reader.
Prepare strategies to deploy data dashboards within your organisation
Once your data visualisations have been created, you’ll need a plan for delivering them throughout the business at the right time and at the right levels.
This course will prepare you to make decisions on how to release the information, timings, and how to communicate upon release for maximum impact.
Syllabus
Week 1
Introduction to the course and to dashboards
Introduction to the course
Welcome to the second course in the Data Analytics for Business Application ExpertTrack!
Dashboards and business metrics
In this activity, you will discover the concept of a dashboard, and the types.
Wrap up
Wrap up of week 3
Week 2
Designing dashboards
Introduction
This week you’ll learn how to design dashboards that are relevant and valuable to stakeholders.
Dashboard design
Effective dashboard design begins and ends with your audience. Who will use the dashboard, and what do they need to know?
Creating dashboards in Tableau
Let’s see how you can use Tableau to improve the user experience for dashboard viewers.
Wrap up
Wrap up of week 2
Week 3
Data communication and accessibility
Introduction
This week you’ll learn how to improve the accessibility of your dashboard, communicate insights, and ensure adoption of your dashboards.
Accessible dashboards
Let’s explore the accessibility principles that apply to visualisation and dashboard design and learn how to implement these principles in Tableau.
Wrap up
Wrap up of Week 3.
Week 4
Data insights and storytelling
Introduction
This week you’ll learn how to communicate insights to stakeholders, and ensure adoption of your dashboards.
Communicating insights
You’ll start to explore ways to communicate and present your data. This last part of the analytics process is important for an analyst and the organisation, but it’s easy to overlook.
Supporting dashboard adoption
Designing and building dashboards is one thing; getting people to use them is another. Let’s explore strategies to deploy your dashboard and maximise their adoption.
Wrap up
Wrap up of Week 4.
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What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Identify key business metrics to prepare operational dashboards
- Identify dashboard layout components
- Evaluate the accessibility of dashboards
- Assess stakeholder requirements
- Prepare strategies to deploy dashboards in an organisation
Who is the course for?
This course is for professionals who wish to build their data visualisation skills to successfully meet the demands of their roles, or to progress into new opportunities.
This may include:
- business professionals looking to progress in their current role
- career starters wanting to develop their data visualisation capabilities to increase their chances of meaningful career progression and promotion
- business or arts graduates who want to enter a professional role by adding quantitative skills, including data visualisation techniques and predictive modelling.
What software or tools do you need?
During the course we’ll be using Tableau Public and Excel. If you don’t have Excel, you might find this online version useful.
We recommend you use a computer to access this course.
Who will you learn with?
Alastair has over 15 years of experience in data science, across business and academia as a researcher, speaker, mentor, consultant and software engineer.
Who developed the course?
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