congratulations on making it this far in
our tableau training let's take a moment
to see how much we have covered to this
point we started off by learning when
and how tableau can be useful in
corporate decision-making and learned
how to install tableaus free version
tableau public we then learned how to
connect data to tableau and what we can
do with the different parts of the
tableau interface not long after we
created your first tableau chart we
learned how to duplicate sheets and how
to create tables then we learned how to
create custom fields in order to
manipulate our data within tableau
easily in addition we learned how to add
totals and subtotals to our tables and
how to work with filters we explored
functionalities allowing us to work with
multiple data sources such as joins and
data blending and most recently we
created three meaningful charts now we
are going to build our dashboard which
will be the last piece of the puzzle
really it will be interesting to put all
three charts right next to each other
and see the type of insights we can get
by analyzing them in one place okay
let's get right into it to create a new
dashboard I'll click on the tiny icon we
have here see when we hover the mouse
over it it starts displaying new
dashboard once the dashboard has been
created my first task would be to modify
its size right now it is a bit too small
isn't it I can adjust the size settings
from the left part of the dashboard
screen let's work with a range that is
1,000 pixels wide and has a height of
800 pixels I hope you are watching this
video from a large screen okay
let's drag and drop of the three charts
all I have to do is drag them and place
each chart where I want it tableau is
quite smart and manages to find space
and
is what we want to do when we position
the cursor above the dashboard area of
course there are a few things that need
to be adjusted I'll remove the legends
we don't need leaving the audiobooks
legend only moreover I would like to
place the audiobook legend
below the pie chart it belongs to this
way what we are doing will be much
clearer I'll simply press on the legend
and then grab the part you see here
dragging it below the pie chart let's
resize a bit to get rid of the arrows
perfect now to remove the arrows of the
pie chart and fit it in its allocated
space without any problems we'll need to
adjust its size from the chart to sheet
let's go there and reduce the pie charts
size just a tiny bit horizontally and
vertically and then we can go back to
the dashboard sheet and see what
happened okay great
the arrows disappeared we are one step
closer let's change the chart titles a
bit because frankly they don't mean that
much we should have done it earlier but
better late than never right a good
title for the first chart would be
number of reviews and average rating
also I would like to adjust its font
size to 11 and put the text in bold
we'll do the same for the other charts
too in order to be consistent which is
quite important when building a
dashboard the title of the pie chart
would be number of reviews by audiobook
as promised I'll apply a font size of 11
and a bold text effect and lastly the
title of the third chart will be ratio
of reviews to sales very well our
dashboard is almost ready in our next
lesson I will show you how we can add a
filter and make this a truly interactive
tool that allows us to dig deeper and
filter all three charts
contemporaneously