How to Create Dashboards in Tableau

So far in this module, you have learned about various visualizations and plot types. Now, let's see how we can view multiple visualizations together.

Dashboards are an intuitive way of deriving insights from various sheets that portray relationships between variables. Creating dashboards in Tableau is quite easy; all you need to do is drag the sheets that you have already created. In the upcoming video, you will learn how to create dashboards easily.

Essentially, a dashboard allows you to analyze different kinds of data simultaneously. This helps you to quickly gather insights that matter to you the most in your day-to-day life. For example, suppose you want to analyze the daily price of a certain product. You can create a dashboard that displays all the analyses pertaining to the price of the product at once rather than checking separate worksheets.
 
Tableau offers powerful interactivity between various plots in a single dashboard. You can filter across different plots using a single filter, and this is called interaction. In the next video, Sean will demonstrate the interactivity between various plots.

Filter actions allow higher levels of visualization interactivity. By selecting a specific category, the dashboard can be filtered to highlight that category. For instance, in the video, Sean filtered the dashboard using the “phones” category, and once filtered, all other plots also changed to reflect the information about phones only. This level of interactivity in a dashboard is what makes Tableau dashboards so powerful. With a well-built dashboard the audience can themselves dive into the data to derive relevant insights. 
 
In addition to the visualization interactivity, Sean demonstrated some edit options that give you the freedom to label charts and dashboards so that the audience quickly understands what each plot represents. Obviously, this was not the exhaustive list of formatting options available in Tableau; we have just scratched the surface of the customization options available. Working with Tableau is a specialist skill, and people spend months learning about the options available. You can also continuously upgrade your knowledge about Tableau by reading blogs, looking at the Tableau website for material, and watching relevant YouTube videos.
 
In the next segment, you will learn about another powerful Tableau superpower, that is, stories.