Deep Dive: Data Analysis in Contour

Course Description (Long)

This course, “Deep Dive: Data Analysis in Contour,” is designed to teach you how to transform, join, and visualize tabular data using Foundry’s Contour application. In approximately 60-90 minutes, you will learn various methods to clean, transform, and visualize data. The course provides a comprehensive introduction to Contour, a powerful data analysis and visualization tool on the Palantir Foundry platform. Contour is structured to handle complex data transformations and visualizations with ease, offering a user-friendly interface for a broad variety of analyses. By the end of the course, you will be able to perform data cleaning, transformation, and visualization tasks, and save analysis results for use in other Foundry tools.

Course Description (Short)

Learn to transform, join, and visualize tabular data using Foundry’s Contour application in 60-90 minutes.

Course Format

• Self-paced online course

• Step-by-step YouTube video guide

• Quiz at the end of the course

Time to Complete

• 60-90 minutes

Learning Objectives

1. Understand the core functionalities of Contour.

2. Perform data cleaning and transformation.

3. Join datasets and create derived columns.

4. Visualize data using various chart types.

5. Create and manage dashboards.

Certifications

• Foundry & AIP Builder Foundations badge (upon completing the quiz)

Mapped to NCF

SA26.3 Beginner Data visualisation:   
Use simple tools (Contour, Quiver, Workshop) to create simple front-end visuals (such as bar charts, line charts and tables) that can be easily accessed by an end user. Correct application of basic filters and variables to underlying or newly created objects to ensure a functioning dashboard and visualise trends.