Chapter 1. A Short Dash to Dashboarding!

In this chapter, we will cover:

  • Preparing for your first dashboard
  • Showing the power of data visualization
  • Connecting to data sources
  • Introducing the Tableau interface
  • Interacting with your first data visualization
  • Sharing your visualization with the world

Introduction

This chapter starts with you being a Tableau beginner, then quickly moves you forward to creating your own visualizations and explains how to interact with the Tableau sample dashboards—how to find, open, and interact with them.

We can create visualizations by using Tableau in order to produce meaningful dashboards that communicate clearly. The six recipes in this chapter will explain how we can get up to speed with Tableau very quickly in order to produce dashboards that facilitate and expedite the decision-making process for strategic decision makers and operational team members within your organization.

Tip

For this book, we will be using version 8.1 to work with Tableau.

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