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About the Course

One of the skills that characterizes great business data analysts is the ability to communicate practical implications of quantitative analyses to any kind of audience member. Even the most sophisticated statistical analyses are not useful to a business if they do not lead to actionable advice, or if the answers to those business questions are not conveyed in a way that non-technical people can understand. In this course you will learn how to become a master at communicating business-relevant implications of data analyses. By the end, you will know how to structure your data analysis projects to ensure the fruits of your hard labor yield results for your stakeholders. You will also know how to streamline your analyses and highlight their implications efficiently using visualizations in Tableau, the most popular visualization program in the business world. Using other Tableau features, you will be able to make effective visualizations that harness the human brain’s innate perceptual and cognitive tendencies to convey conclusions directly and clearly. Finally, you will be practiced in designing and persuasively presenting business “data stories” that use these visualizations, capitalizing on business-tested methods and design principles....

Top reviews

TP

Jul 3, 2016

Thanks very much for great content and especially, Ms. Jana Schaich Borg for brilliant presentation skills, lovely voice and good looking as well. Please participate. This is highly recommend course.

MC

Sep 3, 2021

A course which eases the life of beginners! Exposure to real data through the exercises gave the flavor of real business scenario. Enjoyed the course and the instructor's lectures made it more lucid.

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By Anish V

Feb 20, 2018

Creating a presentation is rigid. There is no room to create a presentation in my own way. The point that instructor is setting points in the rubric about adding emotional hooks and following hour glass structure seems silly to me.

By Hossam A

Apr 21, 2020

Very useful content, however the used software for illustration is an old one, so some steps are different in practice. Moreover the instructor sometimes skips or unclearly do a step that might lead you to get lost

By vanshika s

Jul 19, 2022

Though the course provides good insights. I do not think it is beginner friendly. It is a bit technical. The weekly assignment/readings are a bit tough and video lectures for them, can make the course better.

By Deleted A

May 7, 2017

New user to Tableau - I found there to be too much information in both weeks 2 and 3 to absorb completely, which made the practice exams very time consuming. Time for a manual or other methods of learning.

By Francis U E

Sep 1, 2023

Not enough contents to be a power user in Tableau but good for a start. Naturally I am demandful of myself, maybe that contributed to my dissatisfaction

By Brad C K

Aug 9, 2023

Although much was learned in this course and the Presenter was highly skilled, this course is 10 years old! This badly needs updating.

By Zakir S

Mar 27, 2019

It was a good course but too long and Tableau was very hard (very slow) to run on my laptop so I don't know if I would use it work.

By Yuting W

Aug 12, 2018

The reading part need to much time to understand.I think the professor need pay some time to introduce it in the video

By Brian B

Jun 29, 2022

Too much emphasis on how to give presentations and not enough on the details of using Tableau

By Kevin D W

Jan 3, 2022

I feel like the exercises were not well connected to the quizzes especially in week 3.

By Achilleas B

Nov 11, 2020

Some update is needed as many things have changed in the current tableau edition.

By Dominique B

Dec 3, 2017

Not the right course if you're looking for a technical training on Tableau

By Shane T

Dec 21, 2016

Not enough Tableau use for it to be in the title of the course

By David N

Aug 25, 2020

Good course, but it's only 50% about Tableau (weeks 2 an 3).

By Sangy

Feb 23, 2020

More feedback on assingments and projects wouldbe good.

By Isha S

May 16, 2020

PLEASE IMPROVE THE FORUM

By Yash M

Oct 22, 2020

very brief and basic

By DEBORA M

Jun 4, 2020

not for beginner!

By Prantik S

Jun 13, 2021

Excellent Course

By Diana J

Mar 8, 2021

Más ejemplos

By Katherine H

Oct 20, 2021

The public version of Tableau did not relate to the videos starting from week 2. A lot of time and effort was spent trying to get around the processes that no longer translated from the videos. The concepts were great, but trying to follow along in the tutorial after watching the videos where a process was explained that no longer applied was frustrating and time consuming. The work arounds posted in the forums were largely helpful in getting you going in the right direction, but were not 100% accurate. Week three was where it all went awry with blending of data and table calculations. One of the videos was completely wrong for Tableau Public, and there was no pop up window to correct or instruct on how to perform the action, it just came out wrong each time I tried it. According to the forums I was not alone. I suggest a pop up with instructions on how to complete this section, or to remove the video and add it as a reading section. It was confusing.

By Jonathan “ C

Sep 25, 2023

I felt like this class could have been a lot shorter. There are way too many videos with very little "new material" in it that made getting through the course nearly impossible. Overall that the ratio of what I learned compared to how long the class took was way too low. For context, I finished up to Week 4 but decided not to do Week 5 because it was basically recording a presentation for peers to review. Quite frankly I don't think students take that seriously and so I would get nothing out of doing it. I rather not get the certification, cut my losses and find a better course somewhere else.

By Marco B

Oct 31, 2021

The course is well taught and the explanations are clear, however the thing that disappointed me is that just 2 out of 4 weeks are about the use of Tableau.

It's true that the professor encourages us to discover and practice Tableau by ourselves, and this is fine, but I would expect to learn more about Tableau in a course about Tableau. I would have preferred more lessons on the use of the software and less on other themes like the business analyst role or the communication techniques.

By Sonal A

May 27, 2020

Pathetic audio quality. no orders or mentions that the in-class assignments will be used later in final project so one needs to save them. Poorly designed course.

By Pranay L

May 8, 2021

No great things are explained properly I would not recommend doing this course to anyone.