Chapter 6
Storytelling Foundations in Tableau
IN THIS CHAPTER
Creating compelling dashboards using Tableau Desktop and Tableau Cloud
Exploring branding options in Tableau for dashboards
Building stories with worksheets and dashboards
Tableau is an excellent tool for analyzing data and crafting visualizations, even utilizing a single worksheet and data source. But the real power of Tableau reveals itself when you’re looking to share and collaborate on data with others, which provides multidimensional perspectives. Dashboards enable you to bring together several perspectives so that the audience can interact with the data holistically.
In this chapter, you find out how to engage in two forms of data collaboration beyond a worksheet: the dashboard and the story.
Working with Dashboards
The workbook and its worksheets are obviously important, but there is only so much a worksheet can accomplish. You may, for example, need to compare a variety of data views simultaneously, such as the revenue produced by various departments of an entire company in one view. Or perhaps you want to break out a geographic region using a map view in a second view. In a third view, you may even want to ...
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