Playfair+ Badges

Digital Visual Analytics Credentials

Earn digital credentials at Playfair+ to prove your proficiency with visual analytics and your ability to translate data into insight.

Core and Premium Playfair+ members can take any of our instructor-created exams to help you or your organization evaluate your proficiency across visual analytics strategy, data preparation, design, and engineering. When you pass an exam with a score of 80% or better, you will be issued a digital Accredible badge to share on your resume or LinkedIn profile.

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Visual Analytics Strategy Digital Credentials

Visual Analytics Strategy

Earners of the Visual Analytics Strategy credentials have shown proficiency in understanding why we visualize data, the history of data visualization, and how to create key chart types, among other skills. Making William Playfair – the inventor of data visualization – proud, they know that spreadsheets just won’t cut it in today’s business environment.

 

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Earning Criteria

✅ Pass each exam with a score of 80% or better


Be an active Core or Premium Playfair+ member

Visual Analytics Data Prep Digital Credentials

Data Engineering

Earners of the Visual Analytics Data Prep credentials have shown proficiency in using leading business intelligence software programs / languages such as Alteryx, Tableau Prep Builder, Power Query, and/or SQL to prepare data for analysis. They have a firm grasp on tool-agnostic approaches to connect, consolidate, shape, automate, and quality check critical data sources.

 

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Earning Criteria

✅ Pass each exam with a score of 80% or better


Be an active Core or Premium Playfair+ member

Design and User Experience Digital Credentials

Design & User Experience

Earners of the Visual Analytics Design credentials have shown proficiency in applying principles and elements of design within analytics, have been equipped with user experience research techniques, and have demonstrated an ability to incorporate interface design with leading visual analytics and design software. They understand how to leverage Gestalt principles of visual perception to create intuitive data visualizations that effectively communicate patterns and relationships. They recognize that leveraging design and user experience principles within a data practice adds immeasurable value when you consider you are dramatically increasing the likelihood of decision makers taking action.

 

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Earning Criteria

✅ Pass each exam with a score of 80% or better


Be an active Core or Premium Playfair+ member

Visual Analytics Engineering Digital Credentials

Analytics Engineering

Earners of the Visual Analytics Engineering credentials have shown proficiency in using leading business intelligence software programs such as Tableau, Power BI, and/or Oracle Analytics to translate raw data into valuable insight. They have a firm grasp on tool-agnostic approaches to connecting to data, filtering data to find relevant insights, creating custom calculated aggregations, and engineering some of the most-effective chart types, among other engineering skills.

 

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Earning Criteria

✅ Pass each exam with a score of 80% or better


Be an active Core or Premium Playfair+ member

Playfair+ Visual Analytics Practitioner Badge

Visual Analytics Practitioner

Earners of the Visual Analytics Practitioner credential have shown proficiency in leveraging preattentive attributes to translate raw data into valuable insights. Making William Playfair – the inventor of data visualization – proud, they know that spreadsheets just won’t cut it in today’s business environment.

 

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Playfair+ Advanced Analytics Practitioner Badge

Advanced Analytics Practitioner

Earners of the Advanced Analytics Practitioner credential have shown proficiency in combining advanced methods of statistical analysis with visual interfaces. These business scientists are providing a competitive advantage to their organizations by helping facilitate a deep understanding of large amounts of data.

 

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Playfair+ Data Engineering Practitioner Badge

Data Engineering Practitioner

Earners of the Data Engineering Practitioner credential have proven their proficiency in the cleaning and engineering of raw data. These data professionals are on their way to ridding the world of messy, raw data by translating it into valuable insight.

 

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