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Tableau Cookbook - Recipes for Data Visualization
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Tableau Cookbook - Recipes for Data Visualization

by Shweta Savale
December 2016
Beginner to intermediate
504 pages
10h 40m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 6. Serve It on a Dashboard!

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Combining multiple visualizations into a dashboard
  • Using the filter action
  • Using the highlight action
  • Using the URL action

Introduction

In all the previous chapters, we've created various visualizations and all these visualizations are either individual charts or analysis. Individual charts or analytics provide specific and limited information, like a single piece of a larger puzzle. As we put the pieces together, a larger picture takes shape. This is what we do on a dashboard. A dashboard is a collection of several worksheets and their supporting information put together to convey a broader perspective. A dashboard allows us to facilitate interactivity between ...

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ISBN: 9781784395513