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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 Kareem Z

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Nov 7, 2022

Overall it was good but I think it was too theoretical. Too many concepts without applications on Tableau.

By Quoc V

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Dec 18, 2022

This course should be taught for school credit rather than here. Too much theory, we need more practice

By Siegrid P

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Sep 30, 2021

There is a lot of theoretical material instead of providing the practical ropes in Tableau

By sebastian s v

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Aug 5, 2017

I would like to have more additional material to read..i think the videos are not enougth

By Jérémy M

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May 2, 2017

A littler redundant when you compare it to the previoud courses.

The map part is good.

By Claudia V

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May 5, 2021

We need the subtitles to be within the videos and not in a paragraph below the video

By Henry H A

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Aug 23, 2021

ok course. do not like peer review as it lacks standardized grading system.

By Javier

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Oct 29, 2021

Great course with a lot of theorical information about the design process

By Dmitry K

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Dec 5, 2021

Too little practice, all desire to learn Tableau is slowly fading away..

By Drew O

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Feb 6, 2017

This course is only useful if you have no experience visualizing data.

By Andrew A

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Mar 13, 2020

Good backgrounder, but should have incorporated Tableau a bit more.

By Laurent B

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Feb 20, 2020

I think the course must be more practical and less theoretical.

By Ponciano R

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Mar 12, 2019

Good for an introductory course, needs more practice exercises.

By Andre D

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Jun 14, 2021

Not as much practical application, but content is great.

By Carlos S

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Mar 29, 2018

its still quite basic, not many Tableau training. But i

By Franco K

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Nov 18, 2021

It would be great have more exercises. too much theory

By Stephen D

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Apr 11, 2023

It was fun but there could be more exercises involved

By Radosław K

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Jan 30, 2018

Theory, theory and once again theory ...

By Gail N

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Mar 24, 2017

Content is excellent, support is not.

By Nino M

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Jun 30, 2019

More practice would be helpful

By Luis G

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Jan 2, 2018

very subjective section.

By Ted L

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Jun 12, 2020

I enjoyed visualization until I took this course. This is the worst Coursera course I have taken so far. Though course contents were good, the course was super disorganized. Tableau version used in videos was from several years ago, so it can be confusing if you try to follow along with current version. Many reading materials mentioned in video could not be found in Resources area, but showed up in quizzes; same goes for other sample data (such as Anscombe Quartet data). Week 3 video referred to Cholera map presented in a prior week, but that material was not presented in week 1 or 2. Quiz answers referred to wrong modules to review. Finally, steps for Tableau Desktop installation provided in the course no longer works (and took a lot of googling to find the right method). Overall, the bad product experience took so much away from the course materials, I would not recommend this course.

By Kelly D

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Sep 29, 2017

I was initially disappointed by the focus on design principles with a limited emphasis on implementing these principles in Tableau. However, I realized that the structure of this course and its focus on Gestalt Principles and leveraging pre-attentive attributes were valuable. The problem was that each weekly module concludes with a quiz, but there's only one peer graded assignment for the whole class. That assignment includes instructions like "use one of the 9 design principles in a visualization that…". If the course was restructured so that there were a peer graded assignment to build a tableau visualization at the end of each weekly module it would have been much better.

By Ioana B

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Jun 11, 2021

Too much theory, but overall it can be applied. But for this course I would remove peer review because people are subjective. They added the grades as per their tastes in color. If you like colorful stuff or very strong colors, that doesn't mean they have to be used inside the viz. I don't find it fair to receive a low score because somebody likes red instead of blue.

By Norma L

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Feb 12, 2022

This course may as well have been called Design Principles of Visualizations, as doesnt really include almost any practical teaching about tableau. Dont get me wrong, is nice to understand this principles, but it's a bit dense and quite boring, would greatly improved if doing it a bit longer but with much much more application into tableau