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Everyday Data Visualization
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Everyday Data Visualization

by Desiree Abbott
May 2024
Beginner to intermediate
264 pages
8h 9m
English
Manning Publications
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Part 2

As you’ll learn in chapter 7, when I was about two years into my career as a product analyst, my boss sat me down in front of Tableau and said, “Make me a dashboard.” As I fumbled my way through the task, the idea of putting any effort into the design of the resulting group of charts didn’t once cross my mind. Even as I went on to make more reports for this boss and my stakeholders, I never gave any thought to my users’ needs beyond the data they wanted to see until about a year later when I attended my first Tableau conference. It was only then that I began to understand the need for good design, but I didn’t have the first clue about how to begin learning about this new world without going back to school, and there were extremely few ...

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