Chapter 10

Showcasing Data with Dashboards and Stories

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Creating compelling dashboards using Tableau Desktop and Tableau Cloud

Bullet Exploring branding options in Tableau for dashboards

Bullet Ensuring Section 508 and WCAG accessibility compliance with dashboards and stories

Bullet Building stories with worksheets and dashboards

Tableau is an excellent tool for analyzing data and crafting visualizations, even utilizing a single worksheet and data source. But the real power of Tableau reveals itself when you’re looking to share and collaborate on data with others, which provides multidimensional perspectives. Dashboards enable you to bring together several perspectives so that the audience can interact with the data holistically.

In this chapter, you find out how to engage in two forms of data collaboration beyond a worksheet: the dashboard and the story. To ensure that all users can work with the data, you also discover how to make your data accessible by following Section 508 of the U.S. government’s Rehabilitation Act as well as the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) compliance ...

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