Spring, 2025: Data Visualization

Updated 2025-01-08

Day #1: Thursday, 1/16/2025: Introduction to Data visualization

· Syllabus

· Textbook: None. Tableau 8, The Official Guide. 978-007-181-678-6. $26.98 from Amazon.

· Software: Excel 2019/365, Tableau (both free for BCU students)

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Day #2: Thursday, 1/23/2025: Intro to Tableau

· Sample files: NYC trash, NYC rats, Super store

· Notes

Homework due next class at class time

· Creating a life expectancy chart with Tableau. Instructions. World indicators file.

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Day #3: Thursday, 1/30/2025:.

No class today

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Day #4: Thursday, 2/6/2025: Tableau - Calculated Fields

· Sample file: NYC trash.

· Notes

Homework due next class

· Cell phone usage. Instructions. Data. Put your tbwx (NOT tbw) file in the drop box.

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Day #5: Thursday, 2/13/2025: Table Calculations

· Notes

· Sample file: Super Store

Homework due next class

· 1961 Yankees home runs. Instructions. Data. Put your tbwx (NOT tbw) file in the drop box.

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Day #6: Thursday, 2/20/2025: Tableau Histograms

· Sample file: Math scores

· Notes

·Math scores video

Homework due at the end of class today

· American League RBIs. Instructions. Data file. Hand in the tbwx (NOT tbw) file in the drop box.

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Day #7: Thursday, 2/27/2025: Tableau Dates

· Notes

· Sample files: Superstore Orders 2016.

Homework due at the end of class today

· Des Moines Weather. Data. Put your tbwx (NOT tbw) file in the drop box.

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Day #8: Thursday, 3/13/2025

No class today

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Day #9: Thursday, 3/17/2025

No class today

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Day #10: Thursday, 3/26/2025 Tableau Maps

· Notes

· Sample file: Super Store

Homework due next class

· Earthquakes instructions. Earthquakes data. Put your tbwx (NOT tbw) file in the drop box.

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Day #11: Thursday, 4/3/2025 Highlight Tables, Heat "Maps"

· Notes

· Sample file: Super Store

Homework due next class

· Problem description. Data files: London CO₂ emissions, Coffee Chain sales and profit. Put your tbwx (NOT tbw) file in the drop box.

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Day #12: Thursday, 4/10/2025 Tableau pie charts, tree maps

· Notes

· Sample file: Super Store Sales Training

Homework due next class

· Pie chart and tree map. Instructions. Use the Super Store Sales Training file linked to above. Put your tbwx (NOT tbw) file in the drop box.

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Day #13: Thursday, 4/17/2025: Dashboards

· Some charts to check out.

· Dashboard notes. Data file.

Homework due next class

· Problem description. Data file: Coffee Chain sales and profit.

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Day #14: Thursday, 4/24/2025: Dashboard Actions (Last Data Visualization class)

· Dashboard actions notes. Data file: World Internet Use.

Homework due next class

· Problem description. Data file: World Bank CO2.

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