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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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Understanding and using story points

When we build dashboards, we give our end users a holistic view of the data. However, to see what is really happening with the data, the users need to interact with the dashboard and uncover insights all by themselves. We can make this process a little easier for the end users by guiding them via some instructions on the dashboard; however, it is still an investigative approach. It can be time-consuming for the end users to first find the insights and then take action, so rather than making our users dig out the findings, it would be great if we could give them some readily consumable insights by placing data in an easy-to-understand manner.

Story points in Tableau help us achieve this objective by giving us ...

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ISBN: 9781784395513