Data & Analytics Training & Communities

UMBC is fortunate to have a strong and active analytics community where faculty, staff and even students can meet to share ideas, research and results about the use of “actionable intelligence” in the work and life of the university.

Engagement Opportunities

• Report Exchange (REX) Developers Meeting (every Thursday from noon to 3 p.m.)
• Report Exchange (REX) Users Group Meeting (every other Friday at noon)
• “Analytics @ UMBC” presentation & discussion (~monthly on Fridays at noon)
• Speaker Series
• RSVP by emailing Kevin Joseph at kjoseph@umbc.edu

Tableau Training

• Getting a Tableau license (to publish on the free Tableau Public server)
• Tableau Training Video Recommendations (Short Curriculum)
  • The full list of Free Tableau Training Videos
  • For Viewers (9 minutes)
    • Getting Started with Tableau (Requires creation of a free account)
    • Interacting with Tableau Content
  • For Explorers, Viewer training videos plus…(19 minutes)
    • Web Authoring
    • Constructing Data-Driven Alerts
    • Asking Questions of the Data
    • What Story is the Data Telling?
  • For Creators, Explorer training videos plus…(357 minutes)
    • The Tableau Interface
    • Distributing and Publishing
    • Connecting to Data
    • Visual Analytics
    • Dashboards and Stories
• What type of user am I? The different types of Tableau (Role-Based) Licenses
• Getting a Desktop/Creator license (to publish at UMBC): submit a Request Tracker (RT) ticket for “REX Analytics”
  • Important: Do not use the most recent version as it does not work with our server.
    When registering the software, use the license provided as the product key.
    When asked for the Tableau Server, use – https://rexanalytics.umbc.edu

HelioCampus Training

• Getting access to HelioCampus
• HelioCampus Basic User Training (migrate me to Yuja)
  • HelioCampus Power User Training – Admissions and Course Registrations (migrate me to Yuja)
• HelioCampus Data Science Kickoff (migrate me to Yuja)

Trainings and Community Events