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Creating Data Stories with Tableau Public

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Creating Data Stories with Tableau Public

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Creating Data Stories with Tableau Public
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating a dashboard


Creating a Tableau Public dashboard is a process of adding the various elements (starting with worksheets), onto the dashboard canvas, adding titles, configuring filters, titles, and layout, and then modifying the behavior of the dashboard.

Now, we will build a dashboard from simple visualizations that were created by using the Climate Change data that was published by the World Bank and which is available at http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog/climate-change. It's structured in a way that is similar to that of the other data sources that we are using. You can download the sample dashboards from https://public.tableau.com/views/Chaper7-Dashboards/CO2EmissionsDashboard. We will use the data sources that we have discussed in the previous chapters to build sample dashboards so that you can download the source files to practice.

Our workbook includes a summary map of carbon dioxide emissions by country in 2008, as well as a line graph that shows change over time as regards...