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Interface overview

Interface overview - Tableau Tutorial

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Interface overview

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- [Presenter] Tableau is a very powerful interface. In this video, I'm going to give you a brief walkthrough of how the interface works. We're currently looking at one of my fully built out Tableau workbooks. In this example, we're looking at KPI sales analysis. The first worksheet here you can see is demand planning. Then we also have a KPI chart and a regional sales analysis. These first three tabs are worksheets. Worksheets are very similar to tabs in Excel. What's unique about Tableau is that you can combine Tableau worksheets into a dashboard, and this is where things start to get really cool. What you can essentially do is build out a very simple app for your end user. In this example, we're looking at those three different types of analysis, that we can filter on assortment, so you can build it out for your manager so that he knows exactly how the phones' category is performing and how the electronics and hardware is performing as well. A story is a combination of dashboards…

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