Must be current educator
You must be a current Educator associated with an accredited academic institution.
Program Overview
"By 2025, close to 70% of employees are expected to use data heavily in their job, up from 40% in 2018. However, only 40% of employees say that their organization has provided them with the data skills expected for their role. (source)"
How can universities support students to ensure their competitiveness and readiness in an increasingly data-centric workplace?
SmartBridge, in collaboration with Tableau has launched a data visualisation and storytelling Datathon to teach Australian educators in data analytics using Tableau. This is with the goal of supporting Australian educators in learning and delivering knowledge on data skills and literacy towards the students of today.
The program contains 15 hours of online instructor-led training on data visualisation and storytelling.
All Australian educators teaching in higher education institutions, irrespective of their field of specialisation are eligible to apply for the this program.
Tableau for Teaching (TfT)
Teach data skills across all disciplines and levels in your classroom for free.
Tableau's Academic Programs have enabled more than 1.9 million students and teachers from accredited institutions around the world, across disciplines, with critical data skills. Tableau for Teaching (TfT) offers complimentary software, learning resources, and curriculum to help instructors teach data skills that are essential in today's global economy.
Program Details
- Introduction to Tableau and Data Visualisation
- Overview of Tableau Data Connections
- Overview of sheets, Dashboards and Stories in Tableau
- Connecting Tableau with different data sources
- Tableau basics
- Creating Visualisations using graphs and tables
- Tableau data blending and calculations
- Formatting The Visualisations
- Working with Filters
- Introduction to maps
- Map Options
- Map Layers
- Custom Territories
- Custom Geocoding
- Plotting religion wise population on maps
- Plotting vehicles registration on maps
- Working with Highlights and actions
- Getting started with dashboard and stories
- Building a dashboard
- Dashboard objects
- Dashboard formatting
- Dashboard interactivity using actions
- Device designer
- Story points
- Building a dashboard for business use case
Learn how to teach Tableau software in classroom with the resources provided by Tableau Global
Learn how to teach Tableau software in classroom with the resources provided by Tableau Global
Understanding usage of Tableau Cloud and introduction to Operation on Tableau Cloud
How to Participate?
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Download and Activate Tableau Desktop
As an educator, you're eligible for a free Tableau Desktop / Tableau Prep license.
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Access Tableau e-Learning
Tableau eLearning is a web-based training that you can consume at your own pace.
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Attend 5 Days Bootcamp
Live instructor-led hands-on training on Tableau Desktop.
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Get Participation Certificate
Get a participation certificate after attending all the sessions successfully.
FAQ's
Find answers to the most popular questions
No. Tableau Global Datathon is completely free.
Yes, you can be part of this event even if you don’t have coding knowledge.
No, This program is for individual faculties only, team participation is not acceptable.
The Bootcamp will be organized online via Zoom. You will receive an email with a Zoom meeting link a day before Bootcamp.
A certificate of completion will be provided after successfully attending the sessions.