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Dashboard Design Best Practices in Tableau

In this live Tableau training, you'll leverage the right tools to design reports. Using a video game dataset, you will learn how to customize charts, use themes, and some best practices when working on data visualizations.
May 30, 2023
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In this session, we explore a video game dataset from scratch. As well as creating dashboards, Tableau can be used to display your analysis results in a report format. Reports allow you to communicate your results to a different audience than dashboards, but also require different decisions about presentation.

In this live Tableau training, you'll leverage the right tools to design reports. Using a video game dataset, you will learn how to customize charts, use themes, and some best practices when working on data visualizations. You'll learn how to adapt the message for various stakeholders, so they can take a tour through video gaming history!

Key Takeaways

  • Learn best practices about designing reports in Tableau.
  • Learn exploratory data analysis workflows by going through a video game dataset (1980 to 2010)
  • Master how to share your data insights by the use of stories.

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