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The four questions for every dashboard

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The four questions for every dashboard

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- [Instructor] Whatever dashboard you're going to build in Tableau. We have to consider four important questions for every single dashboard. These are really important, because they're going to impact every single design choice, that goes into building that dashboard. I like to call these, the 4 Ws of Good Dashboard design. Firstly who. Who is your target audience for this dashboard? Is it going to be you? Is it going to be your department? Is it going to be the general public? Understanding who the final viewer of your dashboard is critical. Secondly, where is that audience member actually going to view your dashboard? Is it going to be a desktop machine? Is it going to be on their tablet? Understanding where impacts things like the dashboard size. Why? Why are we building this dashboard in the first place? What is the purpose of that dashboard? Then finally what? What is the final one? Because depending on the other three answers, we then can think about what elements do we want to…

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