In this course, you will analyze and apply essential design principles to your Tableau visualizations. This course assumes you understand the tools within Tableau and have some knowledge of the fundamental concepts of data visualization. You will define and examine the similarities and differences of exploratory and explanatory analysis as well as begin to ask the right questions about what’s needed in a visualization. You will assess how data and design work together, including how to choose the appropriate visual representation for your data, and the difference between effective and ineffective visuals. You will apply effective best practice design principles to your data visualizations and be able to illustrate examples of strategic use of contrast to highlight important elements. You will evaluate pre-attentive attributes and why they are important in visualizations. You will exam the importance of using the "right" amount of color and in the right place and be able to apply design principles to de-clutter your data visualization.
This course is part of the Data Visualization with Tableau Specialization
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Comfortable working with data and datasets.
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Examine and improve an ineffective visualization
Examine and improve an ineffective visualization
Apply visualization best practices
Create and design visualizations that work best for the target audience
Skills you will gain
- Data Analysis
- Tableau Software
- Data Virtualization
- Data Visualization (DataViz)
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Getting Started in Effective and Ineffective Visuals
Visual Perception and Cognitive Load
Design Best Practices and Exploratory Analysis
Design for Understanding
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- 5 stars61.44%
- 4 stars26.48%
- 3 stars8.47%
- 2 stars2.06%
- 1 star1.53%
TOP REVIEWS FROM ESSENTIAL DESIGN PRINCIPLES FOR TABLEAU
I enjoyed the class much, however I would suggest that a little more for feedback could be provided to questions raised by students. Also, PLEASE make the slides available for ALL the lessons.
This was a great course, it had lots of information on design principle which not only helps for people working on Tableau but any other presentation tools
Great coverage of chart types and creating them. Step by step instruction with the "why" element helped me understand how to pursue the chart and understand why I would want to use it.
I enjoyed the second course as part of this five-course data analytics specialism. I am learning that effective data visualisation goes far beyond having a technical competence of Tableau.
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