From the course: Creating Interactive Tableau Dashboards (2019)

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Small stories

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- [Instructor] We can also use stories for a single sheet dashboard as well, they're not just for big data stories. There's a couple little tricks that we can use to make the most of the narrative structure. One of those is to use a good title to draw our viewer in. We can rearrange a dashboard to put the important things in the relevant place. This not only creates engagement, but it encourages more interaction with our data. Let's have a look at an example dashboard, and see how only a few minor changes could completely change the overall feel and engagement for that dashboard. This dashboard is looking at the profitability for our data across two years, it's split between 2017 and 2018 and it's designed to be used by each of our regional managers to see how their team has performed. We have a parameter at the top, to allow the manager to select their name from the list to see what their profits were for their area and then to compare them against the overall department breakdown…

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