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Tableau: Creating Interactive Data Visualizations
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Tableau: Creating Interactive Data Visualizations

by Jen Stirrup, Ashutosh Nandeshwar, Ashley Ohmann, Matt Floyd
August 2016
Beginner to intermediate
660 pages
14h 27m
English
Packt Publishing
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Adding an infographic to your Tableau dashboard

Sometimes people want an infographic rather than a data visualization. An infographic is a picture or a poster that illustrates a part of the story that is contained in the data so that the viewer understands it very quickly. Data visualization, on the other hand, allows the viewers to make up their own minds about the data, which can often be a longer process.

In this recipe, we will look at adding an infographic or a picture to the Tableau dashboard and putting it together with data visualizations that tell a story of the comparison of certain results between the United Kingdom and Australia. This recipe consists of a number of steps. Generally, we will use a background image and then configure ...

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