Deep dive into creating common chart types on Tableau, including how to enhance interactive elements.

Learn to identify key business metrics for preparing meaningful dashboards and ways of enhancing dashboard design.

Develop the ability to evaluate stakeholder requirements in order to design impactful and focused dashboards.

Strengthen your skills to communicate data effectively and responsibly, taking into consideration ethical issues that can arise when working with data.

Explore emerging trends and areas for further development in the field of analytics.

The course fee is $2,650.

Live sessions are an important and valuable part of the Melbourne Business School Online learning experience. Whatever the form of the live session, whether a lecture, a panel discussion with experts, working through relevant case studies, or receiving a practical demonstration of a tool, each live session is purpose built, interactive and highly beneficial to attend live.

We want everyone to be able to participate in our learning community, even if you can't make it to the live sessions. That's why we record all our sessions and make them available to watch later.

Please be aware:

1. dates and times may be subject to change
2. times given are local Melbourne time – from Sunday 1 October 2023, Daylight savings time (AEDT) will be observed

The current scheduled live session are as follows:

• Thursday 24 August: 6.00pm-7.00pm
• Thursday 31 August: 6.00pm-7.00pm
• Thursday 07 September: 6.00pm-7.00pm
• Thursday 14 September: 6.00pm-7.00pm
• Thursday 21 September: 6.00pm-7.00pm
• Thursday 28 September: 6.00pm-7.00pm

No, there will be no pre-course work requirements. There will be an orientation module in the first week of the course, which we strongly recommend you work through to set yourself up for success in the program.

Every short course will start with an orientation module that opens at 12pm (local Melbourne time) on the Thursday prior to Monday’s official course start date.

Melbourne Business School Online will release the first module of the course at 9am (local Melbourne time) on Monday of the course start.

Melbourne Business School Online will accept enrolments up until 12pm mid-day (local Melbourne time) on the Monday (start date).

Melbourne Business School is jointly owned by the business community and the University of Melbourne. Melbourne Business School is the approved provider of a range of University of Melbourne degree programs. This short course is not delivered on behalf of, or by, the University of Melbourne, and does not provide credit towards a University of Melbourne degree program.

Yes, there will be an assessment component which will enable you to further build on your skills throughout the program.

You will need a computer and internet connection. In addition, Excel activities feature throughout this course. To participate, an Excel subscription is required. The course is suitable for learners from a variety of backgrounds, with interest in exploring data visualisation.

This course is highly immersive. You will be able to interact with a network of likeminded peers via a mix of peer-to-peer discussions and live online sessions.

Upon successful completion you will receive a Melbourne Business School Certificate of Completion. Your certificate takes the form of a shareable digital badge. This provides you the opportunity to showcase to the world your newly acquired skills and serves as a digital record of your achievement.

We use Tableau as it is a simple and accessible tool. Tableau is a visual analytics digital platform that helps students use data to solve complex data-driven problems and empowers people and organisations to make the most of their data and tell stories through Tableau’s data visualisations. Not all skills learned are exclusive to Tableau, and Tableau skills are transferable across other programs, platforms and industries. However, it is important to note that knowledge of Tableau is attractive to future employers in various industries.

Tableau connects to data sources, extracts data into sources, simplifies the data to make suitable visualisations of the data. Tableau is considered a relatively simple-to-learn data analysis and visualisation tool.

Tableau Mobile is the companion app for Tableau Cloud and Tableau Server, giving students access to Tableau on the go. It is available on Android and iOS, and lets students interact with the content on their site to discover data insights either online or even offline.