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Mapping in Tableau

[In-person] Tableau is a software package that is increasingly popular for creating striking visualizations, such as charts and graphs, from tabular data. It also has an increasing number of capabilities to create maps. Source data can include native geospatial files (such as shapefiles or GeoJSON files), but also tabular data (such as CSV or Excel files) that include locational values, such as place names or coordinate data. This workshop will cover how to create maps in Tableau and on ways to manipulate the data and to effectively symbolize it on a map.

Please see this blog post for some background on mapping using Tableau.

The workshop will be held in person in Bostock Library (room 023, in the basement corridor leading to Perkins), but may move to virtual depending on Duke Coronavirus policies, health or equipment considerations. Please watch your email for updates. All participants are required to follow current Duke Coronavirus policies to attend the workshop.

There are 15 computers available, and attendees are welcome to bring laptops if they've loaded necessary software. If you're using your own computer, you need to have Tableau installed before the class. You can install Tableau for free as a university student: https://www.tableau.com/academic/students .  

The content of the workshop may be recorded. If you are uncomfortable with a recording being published, please contact the instructor at anytime prior to the conclusion of the workshop.

Mapping & GIS, Data Visualization

Date:
Thursday, October 7, 2021
Time:
10:00am - 12:00pm
Location:
Bostock 023 Training Room
Campus:
West Campus
Categories:
Data and Visualization  
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Event Organizer

Mark Thomas
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