From the course: Creating Interactive Tableau Dashboards
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Build a data story - Tableau Tutorial
From the course: Creating Interactive Tableau Dashboards
Build a data story
- [Instructor] Let's build a data story dashboard. Now the data story dashboard features the following. So it's all about insight. We're not exploring the dashboard, we're not explaining, it's about insight into what is going on with that dashboard. It's about presenting the answers to the user. We've already looked at the data, we've found some answers. We want to present that, and typically we're trying to persuade or make a case to change something. Now a data story is going to involve multiple dashboards connected as part of a data story, or it might be one single dashboard, but has many different features that we connect to piece by piece. So what do we need to show in our example? So we're going to look at our data to see are there any trends we need to be aware of, want to show any good or bad weeks? I want to show which products and locations we're involved. The ultimate goal is, do we need to make some changes to our business? So remember the why of building this particular…
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