Learning AI Tools in Tableau

Chapter 5. Use Cases with Tableau Pulse

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In the previous chapters, you’ve seen all the building blocks it takes to construct metrics in Tableau Pulse. Now it is time to see what metrics in action look like for different industries. In this chapter, I share use cases for sales, finance, healthcare, and administering Tableau Pulse itself. My goal is that you’ll walk away from this chapter inspired by how you can implement Tableau Pulse into your analytics environment and how your end users can benefit from Pulse. In addition to giving you some inspiration, I’ll walk you through how to maximize and customize the insights section of Pulse metrics.

Use Case: Sales

Sales data is one of the most popular types of data sets you’re likely to work with. Rare is the company that doesn’t have some type of product that they are offering up to customers. So in this first use case, I want to show you how to recreate an existing Tableau dashboard ...