Learning Tableau 2019 - Third Edition

Dashboard approaches

There are numerous possible approaches to building dashboards based on your objectives. The following is by no means a comprehensive list:

• Guided analysis: You've done the analysis, made the discoveries, and thus have a deep understanding of the implications of the data story. Often, it can be helpful to design a dashboard that guides your audience through a similar process of making the discoveries for themselves, so the need to act is clear. For example, you may have discovered wasteful spending in the marketing department, but the finance team may not be ready to accept your results unless they can see how the data led you to that conclusion.
• Exploratory: Many times, you do not know what story the data will tell when ...