Data & Analytics Training

The Basics

• How to use UMBC’s Virtual Private Network (Global VPN)
• 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

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

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)