What You'll Get
8+ Hours of self-paced training videos
40 high-value, learn-as-you-work lessons
Expert stories from the field & across industries
Research-backed curriculum designed to unlock your hidden talents
Immediately applicable Pro Tips & Tactics
Graphite Academy
Master Tableau To Make Bigger & Better Data Decisions
Go beyond spreadsheets to get the most out of your team’s data. Win bigger clients. Tell better stories. Drive more profitable decisions.
$199
Self-paced E-learning course
7-day money back guarantee
Trusted by top companies
Set Yourself Apart
Why you should take this course
Tableau is the fastest growing data visualization software in the world. The best companies to work for already use it, and they regularly hire the people who can wield it like wizards.
But to become the office data mage, you'll need to learn not just the features and techniques, but the way to use the tool to shape the conversation everyone at the company is having. In this course you'll learn Tableau not just as pretty visuals but as an agent of change.
What You'll Learn
- How to build trust fast with quick wins
- Turning messy data into workable insights
- Democratize data intelligence, from boardrooms to boots on the ground
- Developing UIs from prototype to vital processes
- Working around Tableau's weaknesses
- Identifying critical topics ripe for delivering insights
- Much More! See Full Agenda
Optimized for You
Who is this program for?
consultants
- Help clients prioritize their business questions
- Support orgs in creating healthy data practices
- Know what could go wrong with a project before it starts
employees
- Improve the "data hygiene" at your company
- Set your colleagues up for success
- Save the entire company time and money
- Demonstrate raise-worthy data skills daily
Meet your Instructor
Gary Porter
15+ years managing enterprise transformations at some of the world’s largest organizations, as a McKinsey consultant and as a Fortune 200 VP
- Degrees in Mechanical Engineering, Business, and Law from MIT and Harvard
- Clients span industries including retail, environmental services, manufacturing, finance, utilities, education, and professional services
- Specialized expertise in helping leadership teams address core strategic issues
Our Difference
What sets this course apart
Expertise is no longer about what you know. It's about how you think. Most courses on Tableau focus on the "how to". This course goes beyond that by unpacking the "how to think" using the tool, and how changing the way you think will take you to the next level in your career.
In this course, you will hear from experts who have used Tableau to solve problems, earn trust, win contracts and promotions, and take their careers to new levels of credibility and compensation. You'll not only hear how they think when they sit down and open their laptops, but how they communicate, collaborate, and strategize to turn data into insight and insights into real value for their clients and their careers.
Course Curriculum
1. Tableau's Powers & Limitations
- 1.1. What Tableau CAN do
- 1.2. What Tableau CAN'T do
- 1.3. When NOT to use Tableau
- 1.4. How to teach yourself new Tableau skills
2. Data Discovery & Value Creation With Tableau
- 2.1. How to prepare data for Tableau
- 2.2. Identifying and prioritizing business questions
- 2.3. Knowing the team you're working with
- 2.4. Balancing qualitative value with quantitative data
- 2.5. How to avoid getting the right answer to the wrong question
- 2.6. Tableau Dashboard Dos and Don'ts
- 2.7. Pre-mortems for data strategies
3. Optimizing for data health & healthy data practices
- 3.1. Why every team needs better data practices
- 3.2. What is data health?
- 3.3. How healthy is your data?
- 3.4. How healthy is your team's relationship to its data?
- 3.5. When and how to clean your data
- 3.6. Optimizing for "Data" LTV
4. Managing stakeholders across the org
- 4.1. Better Business Conversations
- 4.2. Building Credibility with Tableau
- 4.3. Identifying a team's obvious and hidden stakeholders
- 4.4. Aligning stakeholder needs and expectations
- 4.5. Finding out who's got what the whole team needs
- 4.6. Presenting actionable data for all stakeholders
- 4.7. Leveraging stakeholders so data insights work in the real-world
- 4.8. Making data speak the language of its users
5. A Tableau engagement from end to end
- 5.1. The 8 Data Path: A patient practice for generating valuable insights
- 5.2. Asking the Right Questions
- 5.3. Collecting the Right Data
- 5.4. Conducting the Right Investigation
- 5.5. Performing the Right Analysis
- 5.6. Creating the Right Presentation
- 5.7. Telling the Right Story
- 5.8. Facing the Right Direction
- 5.9. Making the Right Decisions
6. Tidying up at the end of a project
- 6.1. Leaving behind value after a project
- 6.2. Getting bigger projects with stories from the field
Frequently Asked Questions
What will I learn in these courses?
- Graphite Academy courses are based on the premise that expertise these days is less about what you know, and more about how you think. We've designed these courses to help you unpack the mind of some of Graphite's top consultants, giving you the feeling of having the expert in the room with you as a source of knowledge and inspiration.
In these courses, you'll learn how experts use data tools to advance their careers and solve bigger problems. You'll hear how they learn about their clients underlying needs and desires, identify business assumptions and data sources needed to begin the analysis, and deliver finding with confidence, conviction, and compelling stories. We'll also include screenshares of the expert walking through the tools themselves to show you how the lessons apply in a practical sense on screen.
What is the format and structure of these courses?
- These courses are organized into 3 to 5 hours of video content structured in 5 to 10 minute segments. You'll have access to interviews with experts, stories from the field, and screenshares walking you through the tools in action.
You'll be able to watch the videos at your own pace anytime. We also include supplementary links and resources to help you dive into the tools and start practicing real-world applications of the technology on your own computer.
What sets these courses apart?
- We believe that expertise these days is less about what you know and more about how you think. So we have hired experts in online learning to tap into the minds of some of our top Graphite consultants, and show you how they think and use technology to solve bigger problems and advance their careers.
Other courses on the internet tend to focus on the technical features of the tool with lectures and long winded screencasts demoing the tool. Those courses tend to be tedious and outdated, and usually redundant since the "how to" resources are usually available online for free.
When are these courses offered?
- Once you purchase a published course you will have unlimited access to the course content. You can view it wherever, whenever you want.
We suggest taking the course once, and then going back to it in a few months to see what new lessons you learn from the experts as your own knowledge and experience with the tool evolves.
Do I need access to the tech tool to take this course?
- Most learners enjoy following along with the lessons on their own computers, which would require you to have your own access to the software featured in the course. Others use the courses to get an overview of the tool so they can have informed conversations about the tool with clients and decide when to invest in the tool as an addition to their professional repertoire.
Most of our courses, such as Tableau and SQL have free-to-use options you can use to teach yourself the tool and follow along with course content. Others, such as Excel, require a paid license to use.
What prior experience do I need to take this course?
- No prior experience with the tool is required. These courses are best for two levels of prior experience:
A. You've heard of the tool featured in the course and you'd like to learn how to start using it on the job
B. You've worked with the tool before and would like to level up your skills and accelerate your path to expertise
At minimum, you should have heard of the tool featured in the course and have a basic sense of how it's used by businesses.
Where can I learn the basics before I take these courses?
- No prior experience is with the tool is required. However, it is recommended that you have heard of the tool and have a basic understanding of how it's used in business.
If you'd like to familiarize yourself with the basics of the tool in order to decide whether it's the right time to take a Graphite Academy course, we recommend searching for "best YouTube channels for learning Thinkific" and watching a few free videos to get a basic understanding of the tool.
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