In this course, we discuss data analytics and visualizations using Tableau Desktop and Tableau Prep software. We survey methods in data cleaning and prepping through ETL (Extract, Transform, Loading). We examine best practises in developing dashboards and understand how to tell a story with health and biological data. Our overall goal is to provide a foundation for using Tableau in data-driven decision making in the life sciences. Visualization with Tableau will be supplemented with R coding techniques students have learned from previous courses.

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to frame various classes of healthcare problems as analytics problems using Tableau, to appropriately identify data sources and build visualizations from them. Students will get practice in planning and developing interactive dashboards that help answer analytical problems and provide data accessibility to a non-technical audience.