In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
Enriching data with mashups
Page trails
Guided analytics with Tableau
Sharing your results in a meeting
Notes and annotations
Using external data to enrich your dashboard
Introduction
Dashboards are more than visual tools to display data; they are tools that can help to move your business forward. Dashboards are used as decision-making tools to obtain results quickly.
You can help your business users to make decisions fast by producing dashboards that are in line with the current research and thinking about dashboard structure. You can help users get results from their dashboard by:
Improving the availability of data
Facilitating the user to explore and understand the data quickly
Sharing information with team members and beyond
Providing adaptability in the dashboard
Allowing flexibility for users to add notes to their dashboard