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Who is the dashboard for? - Tableau Tutorial
From the course: Creating Interactive Tableau Dashboards
Who is the dashboard for?
- [instructor] The first W will look at is the who. Who is the dashboard for? Or in other words, who is the intended audience for this dashboard? Now we have to understand the differences between our different audiences. So firstly what about if it's just you? Well the chances are you're an expert in data visualization, so you don't need to have explanations on how to read the chart types. You might be able to include more advanced chart types, because you understand them, because after all you're going to build them, and also you probably have a good idea of what the data is showing. Now if you've been given the data by somebody else you need to understand that data even before you can visualize it. If you're building just a dashboard that only you are going to use, maybe you don't need to have as much explanation. You can use more advanced chart types, and maybe it doesn't need to look quite as polished, and it should still be nice to yourself, and I'm not saying build a horrible…
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