Tableau Desktop Beginner

Outline

  • Introduction to Tableau Desktop

  • How to connect and organize your data in Tableau Desktop

  • Data Visualization

    • Introduction to data visualization in Tableau Desktop

    • What's the temporal trend of COVID-19 cases in a specified time window?

    • How to combine various charts in a single view

    • What's the fatality rate (deaths per cases) of COVID-19 cases across South Carolina? (Table Calculations)

    • Ways of extracting the trendlines

    • Merging multiple datasets

  • How to present the visualization with the end users (Dashboard basics)

  • Homework

PREREQUISITES FOR THE WORKSHOP

  1. Download the Tableau Desktop software here: https://www.tableau.com/products/desktop/download

  2. In order to follow the workshop materials, please download the COVID-19 dataset in the US at the county level extracted on October 26, 2020 from New York Times repository (reference: https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data): https://bit.ly/2G02eOW

  3. South Carolina COVID-19 dataset extracted on October 26, 2020: https://bit.ly/3l2pACS

  4. Georgia COVID-19 dataset extracted on October 26, 2020: https://bit.ly/2I6Wnby

INSTRUCTOR

Kaitlyn Samons, Data Visualization Instructor

Clemson Data Visualization Lab

E-mail: ksamons@g.clemson.edu