All Data Skills Stories

We're excited to announce the new curriculum available for Data Journalism Programs.

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Recently Tableau partnered with Techbridge Girls and two classrooms of fifth and sixth grade girls visited our campus to get their hands on data and learn more about careers in technology.

Over 150 students gathered in Singapore for a fierce data-viz competition, determined to win the top spot and proud bragging rights. To emerge victorious, they’d have to tell the best data story using Tableau. But there was a catch: None of the teams had ever used Tableau. But that didn’t faze the secondary-school and junior-college students who entered the National Infocomm Competition (NIC) Face-off | Data Analytics Competition. The event, hosted in partnership with the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), recently came to an exciting close.

The US Department of Commerce challenged digital innovators across the country to take its vast terabytes of public data on business, jobs, trade, weather, and demographics, and make it easier for the public to use. Tableau and Enigma, an operational data management and intelligence provider, participated in this challenge and put their software to work.

Starting in September, students could submit their favorite homework assignment along with details of their school using our online form. We were delighted to receive over 100 submissions, and without further ado, here are the winners.

As a company invested in increasing data literacy in the world, we decided to look at how our higher-education system is preparing students to work with data. The Tableau team researched how more than 7,000 American universities are approaching analytics education. The result is our new report, “The State of Data Education in 2016.”

According to Fast Company, “Both demand and salaries have been rising for people who can work with and analyze data.” Easy access to the tools to gain these skills is only half the battle. Unfortunately, you can’t just download viz-whiz skills like you can download a free copy of Tableau, but we’re here to help you expand your skill set.

Here at Tableau, seeing and understanding data costs nothing for students. But what about teaching material? Teachers, we’ve got you covered.

We received an email from Louis Booth, a 16yr old, looking for advice on how to prepare for a career in data analysis and visualization. We gave him some advice and also sought yours. What should students do today to prepare for a great job in the future?

This past June, Jessica Hennessey, an assistant professor of economics at Furman University used a Tableau for Teaching travel grant to speak at the American Economic Association Conference. She then recapped her experience for us and how Tableau changed her teaching experience. If you've ever wondered how Tableau is being used in education to enhance student learning, read on! And if you want to get a travel grant for your next academic conference, contact our Tableau for Teaching team for more details.

"When I went into my current job, they sat me down and said 'look, we just want you to do what you've already done, what you've learned in school with Tableau, that's exactly what we want you to do here.'" Mike Thurston is one of many students who have kickstarted their careers with the Tableau skills they built in school. Mike started using Tableau in one of his HR Analytics courses at Utah State University. Using Tableau in this course allowed him to build out a portfolio of examples of the types of analyses he had built in Tableau. Mike had been using a free copy of Tableau Desktop – which Tableau offers through the Tableau for Students program.