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Sharing Insights in Tableau

In this course, you’ll learn how to draw your audience’s attention to specific insights based on best practices for creating dashboards. By the end, you’ll be able to share insights and create interactive dashboards — and tell data stories to help others understand and explore your analyses.

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Part of the Data Visualization in Tableau, and Business Analyst (Tableau) paths.

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Beginner friendly
3 hours
Self paced
5 lessons
1 project

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Sharing Insights in Tableau

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Course overview

In this course, you’ll learn how to draw an audience’s attention to a specific story point or insight by effectively using colors and graph size, and by leveraging annotations and options within the analysis pane. You’ll also learn how to make your dashboards more effective by using additional elements such as titles, buttons, images, and webpages. Finally, you’ll learn to make your dashboards interactive so that everyone can explore your analysis and conduct deeper data analysis.

Best of all, you’ll learn by doing — you’ll practice and get feedback directly in the browser.

Key skills

Highlighting insights using color, size, annotations, and reference lines
Building dashboards to combine charts and build a story
Sharing interactive analyses

Course outline

Sharing Insights in Tableau [5 lessons]

Using Color and Size Effectively 1h

Lesson Objectives

Identify the difference between continuous and discrete color
Highlight data insights using color

Adding Context Using Analytical Tools 1h

Lesson Objectives

Add totals and subtotals to a table
Improve data visualizations with average and trend lines
Create forecasts based on trends and seasonality

Dashboard Elements 1h

Lesson Objectives

Create dashboards using Tableau
Add basic elements to a dashboard

Dashboard Interactivity 1h

Lesson Objectives

Make a Tableau dashboard more interactive
Add filters to a Tableau dashboard
Add quick actions to a Tableau dashboard

Guided Project: Data Presentation 1h

Lesson Objectives

Build data visualizations in Tableau using best practices
Create Tableau dashboards
Add dashboard actions and filters to allow for data discovery
Add annotations and highlights to call out key insights

Projects in this course

Guided Project: Data Presentation

A guided project to finish the data presentation module.

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