All courses are hands-on and taught by Stephen McDaniel, author of "Rapid Graphs with Tableau" and "SAS for Dummies".  Freakalytics is a worldwide Tableau Education Partner and Stephen is also an instructor for the American Marketing Association.

Designing, Building and Maintaining Dashboards with Tableau

Dashboards are an ideal means of sharing key findings with Tableau. Achieving great success with dashboards requires a variety of skills- communication, analysis, visual design, data management and Tableau expertise. This one-day session uses a case study approach, integrating lecture with hands-on experience. Note- this course requires a moderate level of Tableau experience, at a level of knowledge acquired from understanding the book, "Rapid Graphs with Tableau".  Topics covered:

• Framing dashboard efforts with a solid understanding of business needs
• A review of dashboard types, typical challenges, best practices and examples of good and poor dashboards
• A detailed review of Tableau functionality relevant to dashboard development and deployment
• Multiple dashboard case studies will be jointly developed and reviewed throughout the course.

Additional Course Information

• This course is a combination of lecture, Q&A and hands-on use of Tableau. 
• In order to participate in the hands-on portion of the class, each attendee must bring their own laptop with Tableau 5 already installed and be able to open the sample datasets that come with the software. 
• If you don't already have a Tableau license, there is a 14-day trial period license available at www.Freakalytics.com/RapidGraphs.  No laptops or PC's are available from Freakalytics during the course.  Tables, work areas and power strips for your laptop will be provided in the class.  The instructor is unable to provide installation assistance or installation problem resolution during class to ensure that class time is spent on instruction for all attendees.
• If you purchased this ticket for someone else, please forward on class information or registration e-mails. 
• From your e-mail program, please add billing@freakalytics.com to your safe senders list so we can send you orientation information a few days before class.

Means of Payment for Registration

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Course Terms and Conditions

Definitions:

"Course" refers to a single class, running one or two days, starting at 8:30 AM local time and concluding no later than 4:30 PM local time for each day of the class.

"Attendee(s)" refer to the person or persons that are registered to attend one or more courses.  Note that the 2-course package may not be divided between 2 different people.

Terms: payment may be made via Paypal or Google Checkout. Payments are due in full immediately. Attendees whose payment status is not “paid in full” (according to Paypal or Google Checkout) 3 days prior to the beginning of the workshop will not be allowed to attend the course.

Course Location: courses that specify a city as their location, with no specifics provided for the physical address at time of registration, will be offered at a location within 30 miles of the geographic center of the city.

Cancellation by Attendee: attendees may cancel their registration by contacting Freakalytics, LLC in writing (including email, this must be sent to billing@freakalytics.com.) If the cancellation is made more than 30 days before the start of the calendar week of the course (i.e., 30 days before the Sunday prior to the class date) then a 90% refund will be issued. 50% of the registration fee will be refunded for cancellations made 15-30 days before the start of the calendar week of the course.  No refund will be issued for cancellations made less than 15 days before the start of the calendar week of the course. Cancellations made more than 60 days after the original registration date will be assessed additional fees imposed by PayPal/Google Checkout on Freakalytics in order to process refunds for purchases more than 60 days old- these fees will be approximately 5% of the original order and will be subtracted in addition to the above terms.

Cancellation by Freakalytics: Freakalytics, LLC reserves the right to cancel a course for any reason. If we cancel, we will refund the full registration fees. We are not responsible for any expenses incurred by the purchase of non-refundable air tickets or other expenses associated with the course. We also reserve the right to change the workshop location if necessary (but not more than 30 miles from the original promised location) and will notify you immediately if such a change occurs.

Attendee Substitutions: A different person may be substituted for an attendee. Freakalytics, LLC must be notified of the substitution no less than 3 days before the beginning of the workshop, in order to properly process the substitution.  Attempts at substitution less than 3 days prior will be refused and the No Show policy will apply.

No Show: No refund will be issued for registered attendees who do not attend one or more of their registered courses and do not properly contact Freakalytics, LLC to cancel as specified above.

Warranties and Liability: Freakalytics, LLC does not warrant or guarantee that the courses will meet your requirements or expectations. The courses are provided strictly on an “as is” basis. In no event will Freakalytics, LLC or its agents be liable for any special, indirect, incidental, or consequential damages, including loss of profits and goodwill, or business or business benefit, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.  Course descriptions are provided as an indication of the expected content to be covered; however class conditions and participation may affect the actual content covered in the course.

Books: If you register for both courses, you will receive one copy of each of the three books used in the two courses.  In the event Freakalytics, LLC is unable to provide you with the specified books at the time of the course, you will be asked to provide a mailing address prior to the course completion.  Freakalytics or an agent of Freakalytics will send you the missing book(s) once available for shipment.  If you do not provide an address, the course registration address will be used.

 
Privacy Note: Freakalytics, LLC is a Tableau Software partner.  As such, we reserve the right to share your registration and attendance information with Tableau Software.  To prevent this, please notify us during the course or by e-mail prior to the course start date.