If a picture is worth a thousand words then a dashboard is worth millions.

Visual dashboards that effectively present the results of multiple analysis--sometimes in real time--are invaluable to businesses of all kinds.

In this chapter, we introduce Tableau as a data visualization tool that can be used to construct dashboards, providing working examples demonstrating solutions for effectively presenting results from your big data analysis in a real-time dashboard format.

This chapter is organized into the following main sections: