Build Your First Dashboard with Tableau
By Ranjan Relan
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Description
Now more than ever, data is guiding our decisions, and having it visualized in a meaningful manner helps us act quickly. In this course, Build your first Dashboard with Tableau, you will learn foundational knowledge of building amazing visualizations using Tableau, and will build a COVID-19 dashboard. First, you will learn how to build basic charts such as line chart, pie chart, bar plot, heat map, maps, etc. Next, you will discover how easy it is in Tableau to build dashboards and an accompanying story. Finally, you will explore how to share your insights with the world by exporting visualizations to images and pdfs, as well as publishing them online. When you’re finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge of Tableau needed to build dashboards.
About the author
Ranjan Relan is a Data and Tech Strategy Consultant with 11+ years of experience in the field of Machine Learning, Big Data, Cloud Computing and Data warehousing.
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Course Overview
Hi, everyone. My name is Ranjan Relan, and welcome to my course, Building Your First Tableau Dashboard. I'm a data and tech strategy consultant with over 12 plus years of experience in the field of data analytics and management information system, which includes business intelligence, big data, and data science. From early caveman's paintings to today's dashboard, it is in human nature to simplify the complexity. And to achieve it in today's digital world where there has been an information overload due to multiple digital sources such as a mobile, tablet, laptop, etc, dashboards become all the more relevant to bring visibility to your business and save time. As they say, greatest value of a picture is when it forces you to notice what we never expected it to see. In this course, we are going to build dashboard and derive insights on highly contagious COVID‑19 virus, which has started spreading rapidly from the beginning of year 2020. Some of the major topics we will cover include build popular graphs such as map, bar plot, heat map, etc, build dashboard and story in Tableau, understand how to export and publish insights. By the end of this course, you will realize how easy and simple it is to use Tableau and build complex visualization in a matter of a few minutes. I hope you will join me on this journey to learn building visualization in Tableau with the Build Your First Dashboard with Tableau course, at Pluralsight.