Data Visualisation: Creating Charts and Complex Visualisations in Tableau
Learn the fundamentals of data visualisation and storytelling to boost your career options.
Duration
4 weeksWeekly study
4 hours100% online
How it works
Data Visualisation: Creating Charts and Complex Visualisations in Tableau
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.
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.
What topics will you cover?
- Introduction to dashboards
- Designing dashboards
- Data communication and accessibility
- Data insights and storytelling
When would you like to start?
Start straight away and join a global classroom of learners. If the course hasn’t started yet you’ll see the future date listed below.
Available now
Learning on this course
On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.
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.
If you want to further your understanding in this subject, you may be interested in these courses from the same provider. they share the same subject and overall learning outcomes. Access them here:
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?
FutureLearn
FutureLearn is a leading social learning platform and has been providing high quality online courses for learners around the world over the last ten years.
In collaboration with
Endorsers and supporters
endorsed by
Ways to learn | Buy this course | Subscribe & save | Limited access |
|---|---|---|---|
| Choose the best way to learn for you! | $134/one-off payment | $27.99 For the first two months. Automatically renews | Free |
| Fulfill your current learning need | Develop skills to further your career | Sample the course materials | |
| Access to this course | tick | tick | Access expires 1 Jun 2024 |
| Access to 1,000+ courses | cross | tick | cross |
| Learn at your own pace | tick | tick | cross |
| Discuss your learning in comments | tick | tick | tick |
| Tests to check your learning | tick | tick | cross |
| Certificate when you're eligible | Printed and digital | Digital only | cross |
Cancel for free anytime |
Ways to learn
Choose the best way to learn for you!
Subscribe & save
$27.99
For the first two months. Automatically renews
Develop skills to further your career
- Access to this course
- Access to 1,000+ courses
- Learn at your own pace
- Discuss your learning in comments
- Tests to boost your learning
- Digital certificate when you're eligible
Cancel for free anytime
Buy this course
$134/one-off payment
Fulfill your current learning need
- Access to this course
- Learn at your own pace
- Discuss your learning in comments
- Tests to boost your learning
- Printed and digital certificate when you’re eligible
Limited access
Free
Sample the course materials
- Access expires 1 Jun 2024
Find out more about certificates, Unlimited or buying a course (Upgrades) Sale price available until 5 May 2024 at 23:59 (UTC). T&Cs apply. | |||
Find out more about certificates, Unlimited or buying a course (Upgrades)
Sale price available until 5 May 2024 at 23:59 (UTC). T&Cs apply.
Learning on FutureLearn
Your learning, your rules
- Courses are split into weeks, activities, and steps to help you keep track of your learning
- Learn through a mix of bite-sized videos, long- and short-form articles, audio, and practical activities
- Stay motivated by using the Progress page to keep track of your step completion and assessment scores
Join a global classroom
- Experience the power of social learning, and get inspired by an international network of learners
- Share ideas with your peers and course educators on every step of the course
- Join the conversation by reading, @ing, liking, bookmarking, and replying to comments from others
Map your progress
- As you work through the course, use notifications and the Progress page to guide your learning
- Whenever you’re ready, mark each step as complete, you’re in control
- Complete 90% of course steps and all of the assessments to earn your certificate
Want to know more about learning on FutureLearn? Using FutureLearn
Do you know someone who'd love this course? Tell them about it...
More courses you might like
Learners who joined this course have also enjoyed these courses.
Browse more in IT & Computer Science and Business & Management
