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    Learner Reviews & Feedback for Essential Design Principles for Tableau by University of California, Davis

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    About the Course

    In this course, you will analyze and apply essential design principles to your Tableau visualizations. This course assumes you understand the
    tools within Tableau and have some knowledge of the fundamental concepts of data visualization. You will define and examine the similarities
    and differences of exploratory and explanatory analysis as well as begin to ask the right questions about what’s needed in a visualization. You
    will assess how data and design work together, including how to choose the appropriate visual representation for your data, and the difference
    between effective and ineffective visuals. You will apply effective best practice design principles to your data visualizations an...
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    SL

    Jun 2, 2020

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    This course really changed my perspective in how to create visualization not just using Tableau but in every visualization application. I'm very happy I could take it and learned from it.

    JC

    Apr 7, 2021

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    Great coverage of chart types and creating them. Step by step instruction with the "why" element helped me understand how to pursue the chart and understand why I would want to use it.

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    Oct 25, 2020

    I would give 5 stars overall IF the whole Week 4 Peer Reviewed project would have been better explained. 5 stars for the instructors making Tableau understandable.

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    By Christophe H

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    Dec 11, 2016

    Very interesting to progess beyond a pure technical approach.

    Then some modules are really to much verbose and may be much more effective with more examples

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    By Gabriel M

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    Oct 23, 2020

    It is a good course, it invites you to think about the best ways of reporting information and to be aware of audience's needs when presenting information,

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    Dec 10, 2019

    Some of the quizzes were difficult, but I definitely learned and retained some information from this course. I liked the variety of infor

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    By Ricardo A

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    Jun 27, 2017

    Excellent Entry Level course for Tableau and Important concepts of visualization. Every engineer in my industry should take this course.

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    By Jisan H

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    Aug 16, 2022

    An amazing introductory course. Learned a lot about visualization theory. Only shortcoming was Tableau practice was not enough.

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    By Vaughn P

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    Nov 28, 2016

    Very good at explaining design principles and to get the students thinking of making simple visualizations that convey a story.

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    By Carlos R

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    Feb 7, 2022

    Los conceptos están muy bien, solo que es muy teórico. No hay nada de práctica, pero igualmente suma mucho como conocimiento.

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    By Manjunatha G

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    Feb 14, 2019

    Essential Design Principles for Tableau Course is very useful in designing Tableau Dashboards by applying Principles

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    By Maggi R

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    May 7, 2017

    Great class, it would be nice to have more hands on work with Tableau throughout the course and not just at the end.

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    By Troy G

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    Aug 8, 2017

    I really liked this course, I wished there were more graded projects to get a bit more Tableau hands on experience.

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    By Prakhar A

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    Mar 2, 2020

    Great, got to learn a lot about tableau and visualization. Would be better if got some tableau practice too

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    By Ye Y Z

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    Dec 9, 2020

    One of a great course for beginners, you should learn this before you dive in data visualization.

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    By Eeshan M

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    Mar 7, 2021

    A little more practical examples of control chart and tableau software would be appreciated.

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    By Edouard S

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    Dec 17, 2018

    Great class. I just wish there were better explanations and actual solutions to assignments.

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    By Veronika M

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    Feb 8, 2018

    It would be more interesting to see more practises example or/and more practises tasks.

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    By Santiago C

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    Sep 9, 2017

    Very interesting. very easy explanations, and great videos. Thinking exercise. great!

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    By Heather O

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    Nov 24, 2020

    Good course content and delievery. Would've preferred more hands on Tableau content.

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    By Pazhaveri S V

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    Apr 29, 2022

    Standards to be keep in mind while developing visualizations are clearly explained.

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    By Joseph G

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    Sep 14, 2021

    Good information but too much theory. Should be more practical hands on exercises.

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    By Gerard P

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    Aug 16, 2019

    LOTS of theory. I mean LOTS!! But very important things to know and learn. thanks!

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    By Lara K

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    Dec 6, 2021

    This course had an effective combination of lectures and hand-on demonstrations.

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    By Pascal U E

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    Dec 4, 2016

    Good content, good opportunity to practice. But the teacher is very fast sometime

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    By MARIA I A R

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    May 2, 2021

    La calificación de los compañeros se me quedo pegada 20 días, eso para mejorar

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    By Punit S

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    Sep 26, 2019

    Good course to understand visualization basics and clears out a lot of doubts.

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