Skills you'll learn:
Animated data visualizationsFlourish
Advanced Data Storytelling
Course
Explore advanced data visualization and storytelling techniques. Discover various types of data stories and how to use them effectively. Learn to utilize Tableau Storypoint to add interactivity and visual elements and enhance your analyses with animation and narration using both Tableau Pages and Flourish.
Explore advanced data visualization and storytelling techniques. Discover various types of data stories and how to use them effectively. Learn to utilize Tableau Storypoint to add interactivity and visual elements and enhance your analyses with animation and narration using both Tableau Pages and Flourish.
Beginner
4 weeks
Last Updated November 4, 2024
Prerequisites:
Tableau visualizationsBasic data visualizationsBasic descriptive statisticsExplanatory data analysisTableau proficiency
Beginner
4 weeks
Last Updated November 4, 2024
Skills you'll learn:
Animated data visualizations • Flourish • Tableau pages • Data storytelling
Prerequisites:
Tableau visualizations • Basic data visualizations • Basic descriptive statistics
Course Lessons
Lesson 1
Welcome to Advanced Data Storytelling
In this welcome lesson, you will meet your instructor and learn about the pre-requisite skills of this course. You will also have an overview of the topics covered in this course.
Lesson 2
Eight Data Story Types
You learn about sequential data stories, and how eight different story types can be used to find and tell interesting data stories.
Lesson 3
Creating stories in Tableau
You will learn how to tell interactive stories by creating stories in Tableau. You will learn how to add a Hans Rosling bubble chart to Tableau and how to create a Tableau Storypoint Workbook.
Lesson 4 • Project
Animate a Data Story Midterm Project
In this lesson, you will apply the skills you have acquired in this course to use the World Bank Indicators data file to create an interactive Tableau Story.
Lesson 5
Animating Visualizations
You will use datasets for animating data and build out animations with Tableau pages and get introduced to Flourish.
Lesson 6
Animation and Narration
You will learn how to add audio and narration to your data stories using Flourish, including setting up the files, charts, animation, and audio files to create interactive stories.
Lesson 7 • Project
Animate a Data Story Final Project
In this lesson, students will create an animated data story and add an audio track to create a narrated Flourish story that they can add to their portfolio.
Taught By The Best
Ben Jones
CEO of DataLiteracy.com
Ben Jones is the founder & CEO of Data Literacy, LLC, a training company that helps people learn the language of data. Ben teaches data visualization theory at the University of Washington, and he's the author of Communicating Data With Tableau (O'Reilly 2014).
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