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Udacity

Advanced Data Storytelling

via Udacity

Overview

In this course, you’ll learn advanced data visualization and storytelling techniques. You will learn about the various types of data stories and how to find and use them effectively. You’ll learn to use Tableau Storypoint to add interactivity and other visual elements to a story. Then you’ll learn to add animation and narration to your analyses with both Tableau Pages and Flourish.

Syllabus

  • Welcome to Advanced Data Storytelling
    • In this welcome lesson, you will meet your instructor and learn about the pre-requisite skills of this course. You will also have an overview of the topics covered in this course.
  • Eight Data Story Types
    • You learn about sequential data stories, and how eight different story types can be used to find and tell interesting data stories.
  • Creating stories in Tableau
    • You will learn how to tell interactive stories by creating stories in Tableau. You will learn how to add a Hans Rosling bubble chart to Tableau and how to create a Tableau Storypoint Workbook.
  • Animate a Data Story Midterm Project
    • In this lesson, you will apply the skills you have acquired in this course to use the World Bank Indicators data file to create an interactive Tableau Story.
  • Animating Visualizations
    • You will use datasets for animating data and build out animations with Tableau pages and get introduced to Flourish.
  • Animation and Narration
    • You will learn how to add audio and narration to your data stories using Flourish, including setting up the files, charts, animation, and audio files to create interactive stories.
  • Animate a Data Story Final Project
    • In this lesson, students will create an animated data story and add an audio track to create a narrated Flourish story that they can add to their portfolio.

Taught by

Ben Jones

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