Tableau for Climate Professionals

Course details

This course teaches you to create professional climate data reports in Tableau by visualizing GHG emissions across countries, industries, and gas types. Learn to combine GHG data with GDP and population to calculate key indicators like GHG intensity and emissions per capita. Through building interactive dashboards with filters for gas type, industry, region, and time, gain the skills to explore and present climate insights. Join instructor Harim Jung to find out how to analyze and report climate data effectively to support decision-making and drive action.

Learning objectives
Create professional climate reports in Tableau by visualizing GHG emissions across countries, industries, and gas types.
Analyze and blend GHG data with GDP and population to calculate key indicators like GHG intensity and emissions per capita.
Build interactive dashboards with dynamic filters for gas type, industry, region, and time.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Become a climate data expert
02 - What you ll build
03 - Resources for your success

1. Tableau Basics

04 - What is Tableau
05 - Tableau worksheet essentials - Rows, columns, and shelves
06 - Dimensions and measures
07 - Continuous and discrete fields
08 - Adding colors, sizes, and details
09 - Interactive features - Filters and sorting
10 - Importing data like a pro

2. Preparing Climate Data for Visualizations

11 - Blending climate and GDP data
12 - Exploring critical fields - GHG emissions and CO2 intensity
13 - Exploring critical fields - GDP and income
14 - Exploring critical fields - Blended tables interpretation
15 - Data cleaning and transformation basics
16 - Building questions as a climate data professional

3. Building Climate Visualizations

17 - KPI cards for quick insights
18 - Interactive global maps
19 - Industry and gas type bar charts
20 - Line charts for climate trends - Dual axis
21 - Comparative scatterplots
22 - Formatting for better storytelling
23 - Challenge - Make a KPI card for CO2 emissions
24 - Solution - Make a KPI card for CO2 emissions

4. Creating your Climate Dashboard

25 - Dashboard layout basics
26 - Building a dashboard - KPI, map, and bars
27 - Building a dashboard - Line and scatter
28 - Adding filters and interactivity
29 - Publishing dashboard to Tableau Public

Conclusion

30 - Next steps in your Tableau journey

Tableau for Climate Professionals

Authors

Harim Jung