IAS

Day 90
DIY Solution

Q1. What is a story in tableau?

Answer: In Tableau, a story is a sequence of visualizations that work together to convey

information. You can create stories to tell a data narrative, provide context,
demonstrate how decisions relate to outcomes or make a compelling case.

A story is a sheet, so each visualization in the sheet conveys some actionable insights
prevailing with a question posed on the dashboard or worksheet. At the same time, a
story is also a collection of sheets arranged in a sequence. Each sheet in a story is called
a story point.

Q2. How to create stories in tableau?

Answer: There are many ways to create a story in Tableau. Each story point can be
based on a different view or dashboard. The entire story can be found on the exact
visualization, just seen at various stages, with other marks filtered and annotations
added. You can use stories to make a business case or narrate a sequence of events.

1. Click the New Story tab.

2. In the lower-left corner of the screen, choose a size for your story. Choose from
one of the predefined sizes, or set a custom size in pixels.
 3. By default, your story gets its title from its sheet name. To edit it, double-click the
title. You can also change your title’s font, color, and alignment. Click Apply to
view your changes.
4. To start building your story, drag a sheet from the Story tab on the left and drop it
into the center of the view
5. Click Add a caption to summarize the story point.
6. To highlight a key takeaway for your viewers, drag a text object over to the story
worksheet and type your comment.

To further highlight the main idea of this story point, you can change a filter or sort on a
field in the view, then save your changes by clicking Update above the navigator box.

Q3. Difference Between Tableau Worksheet, Dashboard, and Workbook

Answer:

Workbook: Workbook is a master file containing one or more sheets, each of which can
be a worksheet, dashboard, or story. You can use workbooks to organize, save, share,
and publish your results.

Worksheet: A worksheet contains a single view along with shelves, cards, legends, and
the Data and Analytics panes in its sidebar. Where users can create beautiful and
meaningful graphs and charts so we can easily find insights into given data.

Dashboard: A dashboard is a collection of several views, letting you compare various

data simultaneously. For example, if you have a set of views that you review every day,
you can create a dashboard that displays all the views simultaneously, rather than
navigating to separate worksheets. We can compare more than one sheet with each
other using a single dashboard to find more meaningful insights from it.
You access dashboards from tabs at the bottom of a workbook like worksheets. Data in
sheets and dashboards are connected; when you modify a sheet, any dashboards
containing it change, and vice versa. Both sheets and dashboards update with the latest
available data from the data source.

Q4. What are the components in a dashboard?

Answer:

The components displayed in a dashboard are:

Horizontal: Horizontal view allows the users to combine the worksheets and dashboard
elements from left to right and edit the height of the elements.

Vertical: Vertical view allows the users to combine the worksheets and dashboard
elements from top to bottom and edit the width of the elements.

Text: All the textual fields.

Image Extract: To extract an image, Tableau applies some code, extracts the image, and
saves it in a workbook in the XML format.

Web URL: Hyperlink that points to a web page, file, or other web resources outside of
Tableau

Q5. Explain the advantages of Tableau.

Answer:

Data visualization: Rather than having complex computations over an Excel sheet,
Tableau provides beautiful insights, data blending, and dashboarding derived from the
data.

Create interactive visualizations: Tableau provides a drag-n-drop facility to let the users
interact with the data quickly. You can check some of the templates created using
tableau in the tableau gallery.

With Tableau’s templates gallery, you can choose your option and customize it. With
data visualization features, you can easily embed tons of information in the form of
infographics that appeals to the audience.

Ease of implementation: With drag-n-drop options, Tableau is reportedly easier to use.

This is one such tool that you can learn without coding background or experience in
Python, Business objects, or DOMO.

Handle large amounts of data: Tableau is competent enough to handle millions of rows
without affecting the dashboard performance. It handles dataset which is cleaned and
engineered adequately without any loopholes.

Integration of scripting languages: With Tableau, you can perform complex data
computations using scripting languages like Python and R by importing some visuals or
packages.

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