Tableau Foundations for Modern Visual Analytics

Build your data visualisation skills with Tableau

Tableau is a powerful data visualisation and business intelligence tool that helps organisations turn data into clear, actionable insights. On this three-week course, you’ll explore how Tableau supports modern visual analytics and develop the practical skills to create your own dashboards.

You’ll get to know the Tableau ecosystem and understand how core concepts shape your data analysis.

Learn to connect and prepare data in Tableau

Before you can create effective data visualisations, you need reliable data. You’ll learn how to connect Tableau to common data sources, including Excel, CSV files, databases, and cloud sources, and understand when to use live connections or extracts.

You’ll also explore data preparation using Tableau Prep Builder. From joins, unions, and relationships to cleaning, grouping, pivoting, and aggregation, you’ll learn how to transform raw data into analysis-ready datasets.

Create interactive Tableau dashboards

Turn your data into compelling visual stories using Tableau’s core visualisation tools. You’ll create bar charts, line charts, scatter plots, maps, tree maps, and tables, learning how to select the right visualisation for different analytical questions.

You’ll then bring your work together in an interactive Tableau dashboard, applying filters, sorting, tooltips, layout principles, and basic dashboard actions.

By the end of the course, you’ll have created and published a beginner dashboard that demonstrates your new data visualisation skills.

This course is designed for learners building a structured foundation in Tableau as part of their professional development in data and analytics. It is for aspiring data analysts, BI analysts, reporting specialists, dashboard developers, and business analysts seeking a practical entry point into visual analytics and business intelligence.

It supports career pathways such as Data Analyst, BI Analyst, Tableau Developer, Reporting Analyst, MIS Executive, Dashboard Developer, and Business Analyst across sectors including finance, banking, retail, healthcare, manufacturing, consulting, and technology, where dashboarding and data storytelling skills are increasingly valuable.

The course is also relevant for business professionals in marketing, sales, finance, and operations who want to move beyond Excel-based reporting, team leads evaluating Tableau for business reporting, and graduates building an analytics portfolio. No prior Tableau experience is required; basic comfort with Excel and tabular data is sufficient.

No prior Tableau experience is required. Learners should have basic computer skills, familiarity with fundamental data concepts such as rows, columns and spreadsheets, access to a Windows or macOS computer, and a stable internet connection.

This course is designed for learners building a structured foundation in Tableau as part of their professional development in data and analytics. It is for aspiring data analysts, BI analysts, reporting specialists, dashboard developers, and business analysts seeking a practical entry point into visual analytics and business intelligence.

It supports career pathways such as Data Analyst, BI Analyst, Tableau Developer, Reporting Analyst, MIS Executive, Dashboard Developer, and Business Analyst across sectors including finance, banking, retail, healthcare, manufacturing, consulting, and technology, where dashboarding and data storytelling skills are increasingly valuable.

The course is also relevant for business professionals in marketing, sales, finance, and operations who want to move beyond Excel-based reporting, team leads evaluating Tableau for business reporting, and graduates building an analytics portfolio. No prior Tableau experience is required; basic comfort with Excel and tabular data is sufficient.

• Assess datasets and data models to ensure they support accurate and reliable visual analysis.
• Evaluate chart types, visual design choices, and dashboard components for effective data communication.
• Create interactive visualisations and dashboards using Tableau Desktop and Tableau Public.
• Design end-to-end visual analytics workflows that transform business data into actionable insights.
• Apply Tableau features to connect, prepare, and organise data for visual analysis.