From the course: Creating Interactive Tableau Dashboards
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Challenge: Dashboard design - Tableau Tutorial
From the course: Creating Interactive Tableau Dashboards
Challenge: Dashboard design
(upbeat music) - [Instructor] Here's a challenge for you to practice what we've talked about when it comes to dashboard design. So first thing we're going to do is ensure that the color scheme for the marks and all the other content in the dashboard is consistent. And we're going to use the Landon logo color as inspiration. Next step is to create a good title for the dashboard, explaining what it should be used for. Then we're going to create a collapsable container and add some of the filters into it. We need a date filter for the timeline, a hotel name filter for the scatterplot, and a year filter from the room occupancy heat map. Where appropriate, make those apply to all the other sheets within that particular dashboard. Next, we're going to group the profit timeline and scatterplot together and put a border around them. And we're going to do the same with the two heat maps. To make it look slightly better, we're also going to add some external padding to the containers to give…
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Giving a dashboard a good title8m 34s
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Dashboard colors8m 18s
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Remove chart junk8m 46s
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Visually group elements with borders6m 43s
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Apply filters across sheets6m 16s
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Highlight data with annotations6m 24s
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Collapsible containers to show or hide elements6m 25s
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Challenge: Dashboard design1m 19s
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Solution: Dashboard design10m 59s
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