Dashboard Design
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Introduction to Dashboard Design
Introduction to Dashboard Design
There are numerous benefits to understanding how you can design a Tableau dashboard effectively. This course introduces these benefits and the case study for this course.
Arranging the Information
Arranging the Information
It's important that any dashboard has an appropriate structure and layout. In this lesson, we'll explain why this is the case, and show you the best way to arrange your dashboards.
Using Space and Size Effectively
Using Space and Size Effectively
A dashboard has limited space, so you need to know how to use that space effectively. This lesson teaches you how to do this using four key principles: contrast, repetition, alignment, and proximity.
Selecting the Right Charts
Selecting the Right Charts
Once you know how to organize a dashboard, you need to know what visualizations to put on it. This lesson teaches you which visualizations are most appropriate for a range of common situations.
Determining the Layout
Determining the Layout
Having learned about the important principles of dashboard design, this lesson applies these principles to our case study. We identify the key metrics of interest to our company, and determine the narrative flow for our dashboard.
Creating Leading Visualizations
Creating Leading Visualizations
In this lesson, we start to create the visualizations for our dashboard in Power BI, by creating cards for the KPIs that will go at the top of the dashboard.
Creating Supporting Visualizations
Creating Supporting Visualizations
The first chart on our dashboard is a line chart detailing Monthly Recurring Revenue and subscribers over time. Learn how to create this chart in this lesson.
Setting up Detailed Visualizations
Setting up Detailed Visualizations
In this lesson, we start creating our detailed visualizations for our dashboard, including a bar chart of MRR by location.
Completing Detailed Visualizations
Completing Detailed Visualizations
In this lesson, we finish creating the detailed visualizations for our dashboard by creating an interactive map showing revenue by state.
Planning a Dashboard
Planning a Dashboard
Before we create the dashboard in Tableau, it's a good idea to create a sketch of it externally first. We'll learn how to do this in this lesson.
Recreating a Dashboard Sketch in Tableau
Recreating a Dashboard Sketch in Tableau
Once we know how our dashboard should look, we can start creating it in Tableau. In this lesson, we use our layout containers to match the layout we created in our sketch.
Populating a Dashboard Layout in Tableau
Populating a Dashboard Layout in Tableau
With our layout containers in place, it's merely a matter of populating them. In this lesson we place our previously created visualizations into our layout containers.
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