Tableau for Teaching Curriculum

In this case students will learn how to categorize, filter, and develop insights using real data from Airbnb.

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Teach Tableau Desktop foundational functionality and concepts with this new course. It has everything you need to teach your students Tableau Desktop–including a comprehensive teacher guide that provides guidance on how to teach the content.  

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This new project-based learning assignment uses data from NASA and will teaching your students how to:

• Explore data
• Prepare data
• Visualize data

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Ten modules that are designed to provide students with an introduction to data literacy and quantitative skills. This course covers data fundamentals, statistical thinking, and how to communicate with data. The course content includes lectures, discussions, in-class activities, Tableau practice, test bank, and homework assignments. Available in Canvas Course Export Package (imscc zip file).

Ten modules that will provide students with the data literacy skills of visualizing and communicating data stories. The course covers visualization best practices, design fundamentals, presenting data stories, and data culture. This course content includes lectures, discussions, in-class activities, Tableau practice, test bank, and a class project.

Ten modules that will provide students with the skills to prepare, analyze, visualize and communicate with health and healthcare data. These skills are prerequisites for data-driven health fields and prepare students for professional success. This course is divided into lectures, discussions, in-class activities, Tableau practice, and a class project. Available in Canvas Course Export Package (imscc zip file).

Tableau Online (now Tableau Cloud), is a cloud platform where students can share their work and collaborate by uploading workbooks to a site managed by instructors. Tableau Online can help transition courses to a virtual environment, providing access any where, and on any device. A single Tableau Online site can be used to manage multiple courses, team projects, enable peer review, and can also be used to help evaluate student process. This document guides instructors through setting up and using a Tableau Online Site.

A 10 week curriculum to cover the fundamentals and best practices of data visualization analysis. This course covers a broad range of topics with specific lectures on color, dashboard design, typography, and mapping data.

This course is designed to teach an Introduction to Data Journalism with Tableau over a 10-week term. The modules are designed to be taught in sequential order. 

A module outlining steps to analyze Twitter and Facebook data.