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SC-TABLEAUFree course · Certificate on completion

Tableau for Sport

A free short course by Sportal Corporate — not a credit-bearing university award.

6h 29m of video32 videos37 written lessons

Build the dashboards sports analysts get paid for — pitch maps, pass networks, zones, radars, season and scouting dashboards. Free, in Tableau Public.

The course is a full build, not a tour. It starts with collecting XY data and mapping it onto a pitch, then tables, percentages, KPI colouring, joining and unioning files, and scraping football data. It moves through average player positions, pass maps and matrices, custom pitch zones, event timelines, expected goals running totals, barbell charts, beeswarm plots, small multiples, radar charts and parameter-controlled colour, then team sheets and a four-part season dashboard, ending with a capstone scouting dashboard.

Tableau Public is free, so the whole course costs nothing to follow along with. Thirty-two video lessons are released one at a time, with written notes for each. A ten-question quiz at 80% earns a verifiable certificate.

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What you will learn

69 lessons · 6h 29m
  1. 1How this course works
  2. 2Video 1 — Getting started with Tableau for sport20m
  3. 3Notes — Getting started with Tableau for sport
  4. 4Video 2 — Collecting XY data8m
  5. 5Notes — Collecting XY data
  6. 6Video 3 — Mapping XY data onto a pitch16m
  7. 7Notes — Mapping XY data onto a pitch
  8. 8Video 4 — Creating a table12m
  9. 9Notes — Creating a table
  10. 10Video 5 — Creating percentages11m
  11. 11Notes — Creating percentages
  12. 12Video 6 — Summary tables4m
  13. 13Notes — Summary tables
  14. 14Video 7 — Simple KPI colouring5m
  15. 15Notes — Simple KPI colouring
  16. 16Video 8 — Joining and unioning files11m
  17. 17Notes — Joining and unioning files
  18. 18Video 9 — Merging multiple sheets13m
  19. 19Notes — Merging multiple sheets
  20. 20Video 10 — Scraping football data11m
  21. 21Notes — Scraping football data
  22. 22Video 11 — Average player positions8m
  23. 23Notes — Average player positions
  24. 24Video 12 — Building a pass map16m
  25. 25Notes — Building a pass map
  26. 26Video 13 — Pass matrix and dashboard14m
  27. 27Notes — Pass matrix and dashboard
  28. 28Video 14 — Creating zones on a pitch18m
  29. 29Notes — Creating zones on a pitch
  30. 30Video 15 — Custom pitch zones5m
  31. 31Notes — Custom pitch zones
  32. 32Video 16 — Custom zones with ChatGPT14m
  33. 33Notes — Custom zones with ChatGPT
  34. 34Video 17 — Timeline of events15m
  35. 35Notes — Timeline of events
  36. 36Video 18 — Expected goals running total8m
  37. 37Notes — Expected goals running total
  38. 38Video 19 — Barbell chart for expected goals10m
  39. 39Notes — Barbell chart for expected goals
  40. 40Video 20 — Beeswarm plots8m
  41. 41Notes — Beeswarm plots
  42. 42Video 21 — Beeswarm plots, part two6m
  43. 43Notes — Beeswarm plots, part two
  44. 44Video 22 — Small multiples14m
  45. 45Notes — Small multiples
  46. 46Video 23 — Preparing data for a radar chart8m
  47. 47Notes — Preparing data for a radar chart
  48. 48Video 24 — Building a radar chart5m
  49. 49Notes — Building a radar chart
  50. 50Video 25 — Using a parameter to control colour6m
  51. 51Notes — Using a parameter to control colour
  52. 52Video 26 — Building a team sheet, part one18m
  53. 53Notes — Building a team sheet, part one
  54. 54Video 27 — Building a team sheet, part two15m
  55. 55Notes — Building a team sheet, part two
  56. 56Video 28 — Season dashboard, part one14m
  57. 57Notes — Season dashboard, part one
  58. 58Video 29 — Season dashboard, part two15m
  59. 59Notes — Season dashboard, part two
  60. 60Video 30 — Season dashboard, part three20m
  61. 61Notes — Season dashboard, part three
  62. 62Video 31 — Season dashboard, part four10m
  63. 63Notes — Season dashboard, part four
  64. 64Video 32 — Capstone — a football scouting dashboard31m
  65. 65Notes — Capstone — a football scouting dashboard
  66. 66Key terms
  67. 67Key takeaways
  68. 68Applied output — One dashboard, for a real question
  69. 69Exercise — Ship one dashboard publicly

Lessons unlock one at a time. Finish them all, score 80% on the quiz, and your certificate is issued automatically.

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