Building a sales dashboard in Tableau

There are many ways to get started with visualizing in Tableau. One convenient way is to build out several separate visualizations in sheets and then connect them together on a single dashboard canvas later on.

Building a Crosstab

Next to the Data Source tab, click on the tab called Sheet1 to get started visualizing our first component, as seen in the following screenshot:

Building a Crosstab

As we get started with our first visualization, we will primarily see a blank canvas along with access to dimensions, measures, and visualization options. Any object that comes through as a non-numeric field from the data will be labeled under ...

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