Subject and Course Guides: The Mini Data Shop: A Data Visualization Primer

Wifi Access

1. Connect to the "UTA Guest" network.

2. Use your browser to accept the terms of service.

UTA Guest Wfi Terms and Policy
Terms of service and acceptable use policy for the guest wifi.

Downloading Tableau

Visit the link below. Input your email address and press "Download the App."

Tableau Public
"Tableau Public is free software that can allow anyone to connect to a spreadsheet or file and create interactive data visualizations for the web."

Agenda

Getting started
Creating effective visualizations
- "Best practices in data visualization" presentation
- Hands-on workshop: designing and editing charts in Tableau Public
Publishing your story

Slides

To Obtain MLA CE Credit

Activity Files

Background Info

Student Debt Report
Student Debt and the Class of 2011 (Oct. 2012)
College Scorecard - Documentation
Read information about data coming from College Scorecard and download the data dictionary.
College Scorecard - Data
All of the College Scorecard datasets are available here.

Steps & Data

Workshop Steps
College Cost Data
This is the data we will use for the exercise.
College Cost - Data Dictionary
This document defines the headers from the data file.
State Postal Codes
(Optional) In Tableau, you can add a left join between the STABBR variable in the College Cost file with the POSTAL CODE variable in this file to get full state names to replace abbreviations.

Instructional Videos

Examples

Final Product

Additional Resources

college-insight.org
Browse and compare information about higher education, including affordability, diversity, and student success.
Data.gov
Data sets generated and held by the U.S. government, including Census, NOAA, USGS. University and state government data sets are available also.
Creating Animated Visualizations in Tableau

UTA Libraries Scholarly Communication Services
Services include assistance with data, publishing, copyright, open access, open education, and digital humanities.