I attended the Introduction to Tableau Workshop as part of my Innovation badge. At this workshop, I learned the basic skills associated with Tableau. Tableau is software used to present data in many different ways. In the hour, we experiemented with already-gathered data, and got shown how to put it into a bar graph, a line graph and a statistical map. The instructions given were very clear and easy to follow, which made the process of making these graphs seem very simple. I believe everything I learnt at this Innovation workshop will be extremely useful for my teaching career. I believe this can be used in Math classes when children are learning about Data and Information Handling, as it will be a creative way for them to display data and allow them to learn how to display data in different ways. As the app is easy to understand, it will be easy for me to teach it to the children for them to use for themselves without many problems occurring. This may also be useful in Social Studies or Geography lessons as a way to appreciate statistics and allow for children, particularly in the upper elementary grades, to understand and learn more. Overall, I believe this workshop was extremely useful for me and taught me a lot on the importance of data visualisation, which will also be useful for my future classroom.
