Lesson 1

Introduction to Visual Analytics

Lesson Outline

• Course Overview

Core Readings

• VIVA – What is Visual Analytics?
• Why Visual Analytics
• Visual Analytics - Mastering the Information Age
• The 5 Most Influential Data Visualizations of All Time
• Whitepaper: Visual Analysis for Everyone

All About Tableau

Things about Tableau Prof. Kam want you to know!

• Polaris: A System for Query, Analysis,and Visualization of MultidimensionalRelational Databases
• Tableau Technology
• Show Me: Automatic Presentation for Visual Analysis

Tutorial

• Getting Started

• Tableau Interface

• Getting Started with Visual Analytics

• Reference lines

• Getting Started with Data also self-learn the remaining videos under Connecting to Data

• Getting Started with Tableau Prep Builder. This is a brand-new product from Tableau designed to help everyone quickly and confidently combine, shape, and clean their data for analysis. You can learn more about Tableau Data Prep here. You are encouraged to view all the 12 videos under Tableau Prep.