PUBH6739: Data Dashboards and Visualization with Tableau

The ability to analyze data is an essential skill for public health practitioners in all areas of professional practice. Data analysis is necessary to identify important emerging and/or current trends, problems, and issues that require action. It is important for anyone engaged in public health work to be able to locate relevant and accurate sources of data relative to public health issues, analyze it, synthesize it, and format it in a way that it is clear and compelling to specific audiences. This course provides an introduction to data analysis and presentation through the creation of a dashboard to present data. While this course uses Tableau software, the concepts covered in this course apply to any public health setting and are transferable to other dashboard and data visualization tools.

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