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Fundamentals of Data Visualization

Learn essential data visualization strategies using tools such as Tableau, Looker Studio, HTML/JavaScript/D3, and Python/R.

TOPICS COVERED

  • Overview of data visualization and the importance of visualization in business today
  • Introduction to data management
  • Basic visualization techniques
  • Basic data visualization using:
    • Tableau
    • Looker Studio
    • HTML/JavaScript and D3 (Data Driven Documents)
    • Python/R
  • Connecting to data
  • Introduction to storytelling and sharing insights with data

Why this training is relevant

Discover how data visualization skills can unlock the potential of generative AI:

  • Understanding Training Data: Identify biases and anomalies in data, and ensure that the data accurately represents real-world problems for generative AI.
  • Performance Evaluation: Visualize generative AI outputs to detect errors or artifacts, and enhance the training process and make adjustments to the model architecture as needed.
  • Communication of Results: Craft informative and visually compelling visualizations, and assist others in comprehending the insights derived from generative AI models.
  • Debugging: Visualize outputs at various training stages, and identify and rectify errors in both the training data and model architecture.
  • Interpretation of Predictions: Utilize visualizations to discern key features influencing predictions.
  • Model Development: Employ data visualization to investigate relationships between different features, and streamline the development of new generative AI models.

TARGET AUDIENCE

  • Data Analysts
  • Data Engineers
  • Data Scientists
  • Business Analysts and staff
  • BI Developers
  • Line of business staff
  • IT staff & anyone who works with data and is interested is performing basic analysis on data sets in a low-code/no-code way

PREREQUISITES

• Basic experience working with data, Excel, SQL, or others
• General working knowledge of reporting or business intelligence
• Light programming experience or conceptual understanding of programming

Nice to have:
• Engineering background (statistics, mathematics)
• Light programming experience

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Access, load, merge, and visualize data using various techniques, including data enrichment, joins/merges, and filtering.

Apply conceptual knowledge on lab exercises, knowledge checks, and assignments related to data visualization.

Use the three major data visualization environments: Tableau, Google Cloud (Looker Studio, BigQuery, Sheets), and Python/R, including relevant data and visualization libraries.

Other Cloud Data Analytics Transformation Courses

Upon successful completion of all "Fundamentals of Data" courses, you will be rewarded with a program certificate on Cloud Data Analytics Transformation, in addition to each individual course certificate.

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DVCA

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