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About the Course

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....

Top reviews

SL

Jun 1, 2020

This course really changed my perspective in how to create visualization not just using Tableau but in every visualization application. I'm very happy I could take it and learned from it.

JC

Apr 6, 2021

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.

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By Nitin K

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Nov 28, 2018

nice course

By Robert D

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Jan 6, 2020

Thank you!

By Gregory R G J

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Dec 30, 2018

Thumbs Up!

By Ahmed T

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May 31, 2017

Amazing :)

By Rupesh K

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Nov 17, 2022

very nice

By MUTHUKRISHNAN P

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Apr 28, 2020

EXCELLENT

By Mr. J

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Oct 1, 2019

Top Notch

By Jaspreet K

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Oct 16, 2017

excellent

By negar h

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Dec 21, 2016

Great one

By Pratik J

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Nov 12, 2022

very imp

By Tarigulu K

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Aug 31, 2021

Amazing.

By Гарамжав

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Oct 31, 2018

Nice one

By Ajith K

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May 18, 2017

good one

By Ari

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Aug 16, 2023

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By Irvin Y D M

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Apr 29, 2018

Great

By Chandon R

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Sep 8, 2023

100%

By jerald K

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May 10, 2020

Good

By HRISHABH R

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May 1, 2020

good

By Hussain M I

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Jan 13, 2020

good

By rahul k

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Jul 23, 2019

good

By Maninder S

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May 27, 2018

Nice

By Jonathan D P A

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Sep 16, 2022

ok

By Luca N

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May 24, 2017

The course does a great job in introducing the (neuro)science behind visual perception. It explains concepts like Gestalt Principles, Cognitive Load and Clutter, and how to leverage them in creating/improving a Viz.

In the second part, it covers Exploratory analysis and how to design a successful Viz relative to the audience, by considering static and interactive visuals.

I have particularly appreciated two parts:

1. Gestalt principles. They are easy to grasp yet powerful.

2. Outliers and how to make Control charts.

The following could have been improved:

1. For some topics there is too much repetition without providing deeper/additional content (e.g. Gestalt principles);

2. For some topics there is too little practice (e.g. in module 4 about design, and training with gestalt principles other than colour or proximity).

By kefei m

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Sep 11, 2020

# Good:

+ The structure of the curriculum is very clear and well designed.

+ The content is very relevant to data viz. (design principles should always be the first course to learn)

+ For those assignment rely on peer-review, the waiting time to get review is reasonable (less than 2 days, mostly in 1 day.)

# Things to improve:

+ There is a gap between material taught and the homework assignment. (And I understand that this course focus on design principles instead of actual application on tableau). So, sometimes it brings frustration.

# Tips:

+ Post on the forum to ask cohort for peer-review. It speeds up the peer-review process.

+ Some techniques required to finish the homework might not mention in the lectures. Check the forum to find hint left by former students.

By Mohamed M M

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Jan 9, 2022

+ ves: * Govind is a nice instructor with very good presentation skills. * Slides are attached for each video. * Detailed content with helpful articles. - ves: * Quizes ask questions from articles attached in resources which the instructor havn't mention. * Over dose attached articles and reads with repeated topics. * More theoretical knowledge than practical one. * When Govind records on Tableau or Excel to explain practical examples, his voice is ahead of the recorded picture with about 3 seconds.

Overall I give this course 4 stars because of its unique content.