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Tableau for Clubs

Gain experience outside of class

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Tableau Desktop, Tableau Prep, eLearning included for students

Looking for ideas on how to use Tableau across industries? Invite us to join your club. Become Tableau-Approved. Network with others.

Industry-Specific

Visualize your data in real-world scenarios. Gain access to resources and packaged materials.

Network

Connect with Tableau employees. Ask them about their experiences and what led them to a career in Tableau.

Collaborate

Meet like-minded individuals and learn together. Take what you learn and share it with others.

Practice

Find the best practices of creating dashboards, stories, and visualizations tailored to what interest you.

Jumpstart your career with Tableau.

Learn how to gain valuable in-demand data skills that impress future employers.

 

Take what you learn and share it with others. There are more than 1.2 million terabytes of data online. The world runs on data. At Tableau, we help people see and understand data. So learn Tableau, and then run the world.
Get started with the Data analytics for university students guide. Click through the SlideShare to get inspired. Download your free student version of Tableau, and try it out for yourself.

 

Why become Tableau-Approved?

 

  • Companies are hiring new grads with data analytics skills
  • Linkedin found that among the skills companies need most is #1 Creativity and #3 Analytical Reasoning. Tableau will strengthen both!
  • Tableau is a data visualization tool that saw the third-largest surge in demand. Tableau lets you create advanced charts and graphs and requires no coding - Forbes on Data Culture

 

 

Term Requirements

 

  • Download a Tableau for Students free license
  • Create a Tableau Public club account to build online portfolio
  • Create a viz at the beginning and at the end of the club term
  • Upload a viz to TableauPublic using #TableauForClubs
  • Contribute to Generation Data where club members will submit one story per semester/per quarter detailing how you used Tableau and what you learned

 

Viz Games

Excite your club, improve skills, and boost engagement with a visualization showdown. We’ve taken our years of experience in running viz contests and packaged up our top tips just for you.

Start planning your viz games

Viz Design Workshop

Want to help your club take their dashboards to the next level? A Viz Design Workshop is a fun and interactive way for users to learn and apply visual analytics best practices.

Viz Design Workshop

Data is important in any industry. My club focuses on learning Tableau fundamentals so members are prepared for life outside of the classroom.

More Resources

Tableau Blueprint

Entering the workforce? Tableau Blueprint contains the best practices for building the capabilities you need to create a successful, data-driven organization. If you understand how enterprise software works, you can take your professional persona to the next level. Be a forward thinker.

Explore Data Culture

Visual Analysis Best Practices

Bringing your visualizations from “good” to “great” takes time, patience, attention to detail, and some basic knowledge of visual analysis best practices. Luckily, we have compiled an important list of techniques to get you started.

Visual Analysis Guidebook

Guide to Building an Effective Dashboard

A well-designed dashboard is a powerful launch point for data-driven conversations. Learn how to make an impression when applying for your first job.

Stand Out

Webinars

Filter by "Academic" or find an industry that interests you. See how data comes into play with everything you do.

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Featured
Get to Know Embedded Analytics

What if you could integrate data, visualizations and dashboards anywhere you wanted? What if you could use your data to generate new revenue streams and increase the value of your services and...

21 min
Visual Analytics: Guided Analytics

You have learnt about actions and interactivity, but how do you truly implement a guided analytics approach where performance and user experience live in perfect harmony to provide best-in-class...

44 min
Tableau Virtual Test Drive - English (18 April)

Tableau is all about making data analytics fast, easy, beautiful and most importantly, useful.

Join us for our Tableau Virtual Test Drive and we'll show you how to connect to your data and...

90 min
My Tableau Story with Alice McKnight

The My Tableau Story series showcases the evolving and inspiring experiences of Tableau Community leaders. This episode features global Community leader and Tableau Social Ambassador, Alice...

50 min
What's New in Tableau 2023.1

Join us for an overview of the features in Tableau 2023.1

Tune in for an overview to hear about the latest features from 2023 Tableau Visionary, Samuel Parsons. He will walk you through the...

5 min
2023.1 Analyst Features

Check out the features dedicated for Analysts in Tableau 2023.1

See the latest capabilities in Tableau 2023.1 in action. Learn more about Accelerator Data Mapping, Dynamic Axis Titles,...

5 min
  • Financial Services
Tableau for Consumer Duty: Enhancing Customer Protection and Fairness in Financial Services

The Consumer Duty Regulation is a new set of rules designed to enhance consumer protection and ensure fairness in financial services. To comply with this regulation, companies must have a...

26 min
Data Management in Action

Building Trust and Improving Visibility in your Data Assets

Introducing Tableau’s Add-on solution for Data Management, designed to help our customers accelerate the adoption of self-...

45 min
Build vs Buy

If you've seen our introductory webinar and our webinar on the power of embedded analytics, you already know that embedded analytics is the perfect tool to improve customer engagement and create...

18 min
How Insurers Can Create Competitive Advantages Using Geospatial Analytics

Climate change is fast-changing the business environment for insurers. But insurers can reduce risk and create long-term competitive advantages by unlocking critical insights within their...

59 min


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