Data Visualization

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Data Visualization

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What is the course about?

Data Visualization

The course Data Visualization is an online class provided by Udacity. It may be possible to receive a verified certification or use the course to prepare for a degree.

Combine data, visuals, and narrative to tell impactful stories and make data-driven decisions.

Course description

Data Visualization
4 Months (10 hours/week)

You’ll start by building data visualizations and dashboards, considering your audiences to be as effective as possible. Then, you’ll move into drafting presentations using storytelling techniques, visualizations, and animations to provide data-driven recommendations.
Learn how to select the most appropriate data visualization for an analysis, evaluate the effectiveness of a data visualization, and build interactive and engaging Tableau dashboards.
Design and create a dashboard in an enterprise environment. Discover user needs, identify key metrics, and tailor your dashboard to a particular audience.
Learn the end to end process for telling a story and providing a recommendation based on data. You’ll define an effective problem statement, structure a data presentation, scope analyses, identify biases and limitations within your dataset, and pull together an end-to-end analysis.
Learn advanced data visualization and storytelling techniques. Learn to use Tableau Storypoint to add interactivity and other visual elements to a story, and add animation and narration with Tableau Pages and Flourish.
If you need to sharpen your pre-requisite skills, try the Intro to Descriptive Statistics course.
If you need to sharpen your pre-requisite skills, try the Intro to Descriptive Statistics course.

Intro to Data Visualization
Learn how to select the most appropriate data visualization for an analysis, evaluate the effectiveness of a data visualization, and build interactive and engaging Tableau dashboards.
Build Data Dashboards
Dashboard Designs
Design and create a dashboard in an enterprise environment. Discover user needs, identify key metrics, and tailor your dashboard to a particular audience.
Design a Data Dashboard
Data Storytelling
Learn the end to end process for telling a story and providing a recommendation based on data. You’ll define an effective problem statement, structure a data presentation, scope analyses, identify biases and limitations within your dataset, and pull together an end-to-end analysis.
Build a Data Story
Advanced Data Storytelling
Learn advanced data visualization and storytelling techniques. Learn to use Tableau Storypoint to add interactivity and other visual elements to a story, and add animation and narration with Tableau Pages and Flourish.
Animate a Data Story
To be successful in this program, you should have basic statistics and data analysis skills.

Data analysis and communication are highly sought after skills. Recent LinkedIn research even pointed to data presentation as one of the top 10 most in-demand skills.
Udacity has collaborated with Tableau and highly skilled industry leaders to build this program. You’ll get hands-on practice visualizing data and using them to clearly communicate data-driven recommendations.
By taking this course, you will combine hard skills in data analysis and visualization with soft skills in presentation, storytelling, and communication to create effective presentations.
This program is intended to supplement existing skills and is not meant to prepare you for a specific role. However, the skills you gain are appropriate for many fields including business, marketing, data analytics, executive leadership, and more.
This program is intended for two types of students: business leaders and data professionals.
If you are a business leader looking to leverage data to communicate more effectively, this program is for you. You’ll be able to make your case for a business goal using data to tell a story.
If you are a data analyst, data scientist, machine learning engineer, or other data professional, this program will help you communicate your findings more effectively. You’ll be able to influence your business by showcasing and communicating the most important pieces of data.

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Prerequisites & Facts

Data Visualization

Course Topic

Computer Science

University, College, Institution

Udacity

Course Skill Level

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Course Language

English

Place of class

Online, self-paced (see curriculum for more information)

Degree

Certificate

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Degree & Cost

Data Visualization

To obtain a verified certificate from Udacity you have to finish this course or the latest version of it, if there is a new edition. The class may be free of charge, but there could be some cost to receive a verified certificate (399 USD) or to access the learning materials. The specifics of the course may have been changed, please consult the provider to get the latest quotes and news.

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