Sharing data insights

Creating Dashboards in Tableau

Hadrien Lacroix

Curriculum Manager at DataCamp

Communicating insights visually

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Visualizations give you answers to questions you didn't know you had.

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  • Business context
  • Diligence
  • Patience
1 Ben Schneiderman, https://www.cs.umd.edu/users/ben/
Creating Dashboards in Tableau

Story Points

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  • Present the data story
  • Connected to live data
  • Questions can be addressed
  • Communication delay reduced
  • Reducing time to insight
Creating Dashboards in Tableau

Structuring the presentation

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  1. Question
Creating Dashboards in Tableau

Story Points

Creating Dashboards in Tableau

Structuring the presentation

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  1. Question
  2. Context and qualifiers, assumptions and limitations
Creating Dashboards in Tableau

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Creating Dashboards in Tableau

Structuring the presentation

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  1. Question
  2. Context and qualifiers, assumptions and limitations
  3. Insights
  4. Observations and conclusions
  5. Recommendations
Creating Dashboards in Tableau

Story Points tools

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  • Formatting
  • Local annotations
  • Other tools
Creating Dashboards in Tableau

Let's practice!

Creating Dashboards in Tableau

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