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3-4 hours worth of material
selfpaced
Overview
Discover how to create interactive dashboards that are informative and compelling using Tableau, the data visualization software.
Syllabus
Introduction
- Design dashboards in Tableau
- What you should know
- The four questions for every dashboard
- Who is the dashboard for?
- Where is the dashboard viewed?
- Why are you making the dashboard?
- What question do you want to answer?
- Create a basic dashboard
- Size your dashboard
- Floating vs. tiles layout
- How to use layout containers
- Titles on your dashboard
- Challenge: Create a basic dashboard
- Solution: Create a basic dashboard
- Apply filters across sheets
- Highlight data with annotations
- Additional information and help
- Collapsible containers to show or hide elements
- Challenge: Modifying dashboards
- Solution: Modifying dashboards
- Dashboard colors
- Remove chart junk
- Visually group elements with borders
- Challenge: Dashboard design
- Solution: Dashboard design
- Add interaction with actions
- Filter actions
- Highlight actions
- URL actions
- Go to Sheet
- Proportional brushing using set actions
- Asymmetric drill down using set actions
- Highlight with parameter actions
- Challenge: Dashboard actions
- Solution: Dashboard actions
- Data viz vs. data stories
- Narrative structure
- Big stories
- Small stories
- Challenge: Dashboard stories
- Solution: Dashboard stories
- Build an exploratory dashboard
- Build an informative dashboard
- Build a data story
- Build a KPI dashboard
- Design for tablets and mobile
- Challenge: Dashboard styles
- Solution: Dashboard styles
- Next steps
Taught by
Matt Francis
