HETUG January 2025: Hey Teach, Tell Me a Well-Designed Story!

Higher Education Tableau User Group

Jan 22, 8:00 – 9:30 PM (UTC)

Celebrate International Day of Education (1/24) early with a focus on teachers and education! We'll meet Luka Perkovic, co-lead of the Memphis Educators TUG. Branden Kornell will talk about how passion helps you become a better data storyteller. Lacey Oellerich will share how Augusta incorporated design standards and a creator toolkit into the analytics process to make doing good data viz easier.

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About this event

🎶 Welcome 🎶

Log in, grab a treat, and take a comfortable seat.


👨‍🏫 Meet a Community Member 👨‍🏫

Luka Perković (Memphis Educators Tableau User Group)

We'll meet Luka Perković, leader of the brand new Memphis Educators Tableau User Group!

Find Luka on LinkedIn!

Things Luka talked about:


📖 Tips & Tricks 📖

Branden Kornell (BKSG Consulting)

Learn how Chart Champ finalist Branden Kornell's U.S. Colleges: A New Approach to Diversity visualization came to be, and how visualizing data you care about can help you become a better data storyteller.

Find Branden Kornell on LinkedIn and Tableau Public!

Things that came up during Branden's presentation:


🎨 Establishing a Data Identity: How to Build and Implement an Analytics Creator Toolkit at Your Institution 🎨

Lacey Oellerich (Augusta University)

Lacey will highlight the process Augusta University used to establish a set of design standards and creator toolkit that includes elements such as a style guide, color palette, icons, dashboard/communications/start guide templates, analytics project checklist and more. Get some tips on developing an analytics brand for your organization.

Find Lacey Oellerich on LinkedIn!

Things that came up during Lacey's presentation:

  • Tableau Colour Manager by Alex Waleczek helps create brand color palettes via Tableau preferences files and share them with your colleagues 


💬 Wrap-up and Chat 💬

We'll close out the meeting with info about our next HETUG meeting, and then open up breakout rooms to chat! (Chat may extend past 4:30pm Eastern.)



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Have a quick tip to share? A longer presentation? Want us to interview you in our Meet a Community Member segment? We want to hear from you!

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Join the conversation on Slack!

Want to chat with other HETUG members? Have a Tableau question? Want a sounding board? We've got a Slack space for that.

Register with an .edu or other Higher Ed email address.

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Have questions about HETUG?

Contact the HETUG co-leads in the #higher_ed_tug Slack channel, or email us at higheredtug@gmail.com.

Speakers

  • Lacey Oellerich

  • Branden Kornell

    BKSG Consulting

    Principal

Organizers

  • Roshni Gohil

    MIT

    User Group Ambassador

  • Virginia Moench

    Appalachian State University

    User Group Leader

  • Andrew Drinkwater

    Plaid Analytics

    User Group Leader

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