From the course: Creating Interactive Tableau Dashboards

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Where is the dashboard viewed?

Where is the dashboard viewed? - Tableau Tutorial

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Where is the dashboard viewed?

- The second topic here is, Where will the dashboard be seen? Now, this is important because we need to understand what application and what method people are going to view our dashboard on. Is it going to be on the desktop or a laptop? Is it going to be on a tablet or a mobile device? What about if somebody wants to print it out? Now, printing is awkward for us sometimes because that means no mentor action. What about if they want to put it on a big TV display? Now, the choice's of where somebody's going to view the dashboard have two important influences. Firstly, the dashboard size. So, the viewing device is going to determine the absolute size of our dashboard, which is critical, because that's going to influence how many elements we can include in the dashboard and the dashboard layout. The second thing it also influences is, is the level of interaction we can put into our dashboard. That's important because anything we can't do through interaction, we're going to take out…

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