Creating dashboards

Creating Dashboards in Tableau

Sara Billen

Curriculum Manager, DataCamp

1 https://www.tableau.com/solutions/gallery/superstore
Creating Dashboards in Tableau

Dashboards

  • Create insights
  • Combine different worksheets
  • Interactivity
  • Self-serve data exploration
  • Variety of purposes

$$

Creating Dashboards in Tableau

Annotating dashboards

  • Add text to draw attention
  • Annotations:
    • Mark
    • Point
    • Area

Creating Dashboards in Tableau

Divvy data

Divvy bike station

1 Photo credit: Arvell Dorsey Jr. from Chicago, IL, United States
Creating Dashboards in Tableau

Divvy data

Each trip is anonymized and includes:

  • Trip start and end time
  • Trip start and end station
  • The number of docks available at each station
  • Rider type (subscriber/customer)
  • For subscribers, gender and year of birth

Calculated fields:

  • Time block
  • Seasons
  • Weekday or weekend
Creating Dashboards in Tableau

Let's practice!

Creating Dashboards in Tableau

Preparing Video For Download...