Back on your Feet – Dashboard Specialist Programme (third edition)

Are you new to data visualization and building dashboards? Have you been wanting to learn more on data preparation? Join She Loves Data, Singapore Management University and TIBCO to earn your Dashboard Foundations Badge in a series of training modules geared to help you stay professionally competitive in today’s tough job market.

As usual with our courses, they are free! However, this new program offers you the opportunity to apply for the paid Dashboard Foundations Badge to add to your CV and Profile.

DASHBOARD FOUNDATIONS – PROGRAM OVERVIEW

The creation of Dashboards to communicate and visualise data and therefore business insights have become an important part in almost every industry sector. Whether they are produced for sales, marketing, finance or executive teams, they allow even non-technical users to participate and understand the analytics process by compiling data and visualizing trends and occurrences. This program will provide you with the right techniques to successfully design, develop and deploy dashboards, enhancing your core competencies to ensure your skills are as relevant to today’s market as they could be.

Here is how our program is structured what you can expect to learn over the course of the 4 sessions (dates and time below):

Module 1: Dashboard exploration as an end user. Marking and Filtering concepts

In this session you will explore dashboards from the viewpoint of your audience, the end user. Presentation is everything!

Module 2: Asking the right questions by understanding what data is important to answer the analytical business requirements. Foundations of charts and basic visualizations.

This session will help you understand that sometimes it is necessary to translate business questions into concrete analytical questions and how to choose the charts to help you visualize data.

Module 3: Basic in Data cleaning, advanced visualizations, and connecting to multiple data sources

Data usually have some issues… learn how to tidy them in order to be able to use them.

Module 4: Designing the dashboard for end-user consumption.

What will be the best design for my dashboard? Is the information displayed correctly? Do the right people have access to it?

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Dates:

Module I: 27/03/2021

Module II: 10/04/2021

Module III: 17/04/2021

Module IV: 24/04/2021

Time: 4:00pm to 6:00pm SGT / 8am to 10am GMT / 1:30pm to 3:30pm IST / 9:00am to 11:00am CET

During the program you will learn to develop and create dashboards using TIBCO Spotfire and each attendee will receive a free 1 year-license to TIBCO Spotfire (subscription value US$1250) to use after you have completed the course.

You do not have to have any prior experience creating dashboards, however, we do need you to have worked with spreadsheets such as Excel or Google Sheets.

Classes will be delivered online so you will need a stable internet connection and a laptop or computer. This course is open to all genders.

As usual with our courses, they are FREE! As an added value we will offer the opportunity to apply for a paid Dashboard Foundation Certificate and Digital Badge to add to your CV and Profile after the completion of the learning module.

Participation in the workshops and completion of the assignments will earn you Participation Points. Earn a minimum of 600 participation points to apply for the Dashboard Foundation Badge and certificate or 900+ points to apply for the Platinum Dashboard Foundation Badge and Certificate (with Distinction). The cost of the Certificate and Digital badge will be SGD150.