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Creating visualizations for stories

Creating visualizations for stories - Tableau Tutorial

From the course: Tableau for Data Visualization

Creating visualizations for stories

Hello, everybody, in this lesson, we're gonna start looking at how we can create a story. We'll create all the visualizations in this lesson, and then in the next one, we're gonna assemble it all and see how we can really customize our story. Now, right down here at the very bottom, we already know we have a sheet, we have a dashboard, and then to the right, we have a story. We have not looked at that at all, so we're gonna open that up right now. Now when you open up a story, it looks a little bit different than a dashboard, and it acts. How this works is you create your different visualizations, and with a dashboard, you're bringing over these different visualizations and you're adding them together. But it's not how it works in a sheet. A sheet is essentially like a story in the fact that you can add multiple pieces of the story, so different chapters, essentially. Then you can come in here, you can drag over one sheet at a time. Or you can have a dashboard built and you can drag…

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