Workshop Description:
Data visualization gives us a better understanding of our data and helps us communicate that to others. It has the potential to generate insights, communicate findings, and illustrate evidence. Conversely, a poor visualization… Read more.
Tableau
To build your skills in Tableau Desktop, we suggest following our tutorials in this order:
Course Description:
Through a combination of lecture and activities, this self-paced online course will introduce participants to a common data visualization tool, Tableau Desktop. Participants will learn to create a variety of visualizations such… Read more.
Set Up and Starting Up
Download the 3 example dataset Excel files and save them somewhere on your computer where you can find them, such as your Desktop:
AuthorDataCitationGrants.xlsx
AuthorDataExperience.xlsx… Read more.
Getting started
Everyone can get the free version of Tableau, Tableau Public (Note: All the courses/workshops/tutorials were designed for Tableau Desktop, the paid version of Tableau, which used to be available to students; however, now only… Read more.
Table of Contents
Introduction
The Dashboard
Starting a Visualization Project
Tableau Tutorial
Connecting to a live dataset that has multiple sheets
Create side-by-side bar graphs with filters for cases by day
Create a parameter so that… Read more.
Note: this guide builds on, and goes further than, the existing Introductory Tableau Desktop demo. There are some graphs in the introductory tutorial that are not covered in this tutorial, so feel free to consult both.
Downloading the Required… Read more.
Tableau Desktop is a commercial program used to create data visualizations and interactive dashboards. This tutorial assumes that you are student, instructor or researcher at the University of Toronto, and can thus request a free, renewable, one-… Read more.
Table of Contents
1. Opening Datasets in Tableau
2. Beginning Work
3. Creating a Simple Bar Graph
4. Creating a Simple Line Graph
5. Creating Simple Scatter Plots and Merging Datasets
6. Creating a Tree Map … Read more.