Use of Tableau in Data Analysis, Visualisation and Dashboard Design

WORKSHOP AGENDA

The workshop will provide a comprehensive introduction to Tableau, a leading visual analytics platform that helps users see, understand, and make data-driven decisions. Participants will learn how to use Tableau to build interactive and visually engaging dashboards, charts, and graphs even without a technical background.

The sessions will also guide participants on how to connect Tableau to a wide range of data sources – such as spreadsheets, databases, cloud platforms, and big-data systems – to enable smooth and reliable data integration for informed decision-making. Using Tableau’s intuitive interface, the workshop will demonstrate how students and professionals alike can visually clean, combine, and prepare data for analysis, strengthening their ability to work confidently with real-world datasets.

Workshop Outline:

  • Data management
  • Understanding of Tableau’s interface
  • Connect to multiple data sources
  • Learn essential data preparation techniques: managing metadata, and combining data using joins, unions, and relationships
  • Build core visualizations charts and explore basic analytical capabilities
  • Understanding Dashboard design principles
  • Design effective and interactive dashboards
  • Hands on practice on exploring data dynamically using example dataset