Leveraging Tableau Desktop to
Answer Your Questions
March 7-8th, 2017
David Brower Center | Berkeley, CA
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Kevin Sanchez
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Session Objectives
By the end of this session, you should be able to:
▪ Get a sense of how different data leaders
handle turning data into insight for their districts
▪ Further develop your knowledge of how
different visualizations can expand the potential
to derive insight from data
▪ Feel empowered to take targeted reporting
metrics and questions and turn them into
analytically driven responses.
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If you...
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...attended Tableau trainings at last year’s Summit, we will be
covering some of the same topics you learned in Tableau 1 & 2
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...are an intermediate or advanced Tableau user, this session may
be focused more on approaching a question for analysis rather than
building reporting dashboards.
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...are a first-time Tableau user, you could be in the right place; if you
plan on investing time into developing your Tableau skills, now or in
the future, get comfortable!
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Agenda
▪ Reporting vs Analysis
▪ Building towards the Question (and all the questions that come after that)
▪ Break Out: Reconstruct the Question
▪ Choosing the right type of visualization
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Reporting vs Analysis
vs
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What Questions Land on Your Desk?
And then let’s share!
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The Question
Generally, I like to start out with open-ended, but guided questions.
OK starting questions
GREAT! starting questions
At what F&P level are students reading?
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The Question
Generally, I like to start out with open-ended, but guided questions.
OK starting questions
At what F&P level are students reading?
GREAT! starting questions
Are students understanding reading
concepts at their grade level?
What is our student’s proficiency level on
the reading section of the standardized
test?
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The Question
Generally, I like to start out with open-ended, but guided questions.
OK starting questions
GREAT! starting questions
At what F&P level are students reading?
Are students understanding reading
concepts at their grade level?
What is our student’s proficiency level on
the reading section of the standardized
test?
Are we preparing students well for
standardized tests?
What is the average GPA breakdown of our
students?
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The Question
Generally, I like to start out with open-ended, but guided questions.
OK starting questions
GREAT! starting questions
At what F&P level are students reading?
Are students understanding reading
concepts at their grade level?
What is our student’s proficiency level on
the reading section of the standardized
test?
Are we preparing students well for
standardized tests?
What is the average GPA breakdown of our
students?
Are students performing as expected in the
classroom?
Always Ask Yourself, What do we really want to know here.
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Breakout: Forming the Questions
Steps:
1. Reconstruct the overall question.
2. Ask follow-up questions.
Examples of Follow-up Questions:
How are we going to measure the focus of the question?
What hypotheses do we have, if any?
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Let’s Share
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Data Visualizations
Understanding When to Use Which
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Distribution Bar Charts
Good for:
○ Comparing
segments across
time or between
groups
○ Seeing
distribution within
a category or a
time period
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Line Graphs (with reference lines?)
Good for:
○ Identifying trends
over time
○ Comparing trends
between different
categories
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Scatter Plots
Good for:
○ Identifying
relationships
between two
measures
○ Identifying trends
related to
categories within
cluster of points
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Highlighted Tables
Good for:
○ Quickly identifying
key values to
further investigate
○ Showing
movement from
one year to
another
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Area Maps
Good for:
○ Identifying trends
in distribution and
volume
○ Providing context
to trends
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Box and Whisker Plots
Good for:
○ Comparing
detailed
distribution of
values across
time or between
groups
○ Identify trends in
distribution within
a category or a
time period
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Questions?
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