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Broken Promises: How to Fix Dashboards
Jill Hutchinson
Technical Writer
Tableau
# T C 1 8
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Good afternoon!
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LOOK!
UP IN THE SKY!
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Broken Promises: How to Fix Dashboards
Jill Hutchinson
Technical Writer
Tableau
# T C 1 8
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This dashboard is broken.
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Agenda
Intro
“This isn’t what I asked for.” (Audience & Purpose)
“The information is wrong or missing.” (Troubleshooting)
“It’s too confusing and ugly!” (Functionality & Beauty)
Wrap Up
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@jubyleedata
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1. Review the broken dashboard
2. List the problems
3. Make a plan
4. Dive in and start fixing!
5. Polish your dashboard
Steps to Superhero Success
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Confirm purpose and audience
Verify server and data source permissions
Check data combinations
Check calculations and filters
Review the look and functionality
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Performance
Best practices for dashboard performance
Wednesday | 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM | MCCNO - L1 - Great Hall B
Server and Data Sources
Graduating to Tableau Server | Send your users into the world
Thursday | 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM | MCCNO - L2 - 214
The Doctor is always in!
Covered Elsewhere
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Super Superstore
Empress Midnight
Over Overlord
Captain Miracle Empire of the East
Legendary Burning Bird
West Coast Wilds
Lex Lethal
Secret South
Professor Z
Central Citadel
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This isn't what I asked for.
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Audience and Purpose
What questions are they trying to answer?
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Audience and Purpose
Overlords looking to increase profitable products.
What questions are they trying to answer?
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Audience and Purpose
Overlords looking to increase profitable products.
What questions are they trying to answer?
Who’s winning?
What states are unprofitable?
What specific products are failing?
How much of Sales are getting returned?
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Audience and Purpose
Overlords looking to increase profitable products.
What questions are they trying to answer?
Who’s winning?
What states are unprofitable?
What specific products are failing?
How much of Sales are getting returned?
Click to get more info; deep dive
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Audience and Purpose
Overlords looking to increase profitable products.
What questions are they trying to answer?
Who’s winning?
What states are unprofitable?
What specific products are failing?
How much of Sales are getting returned?
Click to get more info; deep dive
Over Overlord needs to know who is winning to know who to send to the fiery pit below the boardroom.
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Audience and Purpose
Overlords looking to increase profitable products.
What questions are they trying to answer?
Who’s winning?
What states are unprofitable?
What specific products are failing?
How much of Sales are getting returned?
Click to get more info; deep dive
Over Overlord needs to know who is winning to know who to send to the fiery pit below the boardroom.
Determine bragging rights and problem products.
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1. Review the broken dashboard
2. List the problems
3. Make a plan
a) Fix the big numbers and return sales
b) Make it interactive
c) Focus on PROFIT and PRODUCTS.
4. Dive in and start fixing!
5. Polish your dashboard
Steps to Superhero Success
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The information is wrong.
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This is just UGLY.
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1. Review the broken dashboard
2. List the problems
3. Make a plan
a) Fix the big numbers and return sales
b) Make it interactive
c) Focus on PROFIT and PRODUCTS.
4. Dive in and start fixing!
5. Polish your dashboard
Steps to Superhero Success
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1. Know your audience
2. Consider display size
3. Plan for fast load times
4. Leverage the sweet spot
5. Limit the number of views and colors
10 Best Practices
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6. Add interactivity to encourage exploration
7. Format from largest to smallest
8. Leverage tooltips, the story within your story
9. Eliminate clutter
10. Test your dashboard
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1. Review the broken dashboard
2. List the problems
3. Make a plan
4. Dive in and start fixing!
5. Polish your dashboard
Steps to Superhero Success
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More Information
Appendix
Resources for each section of this talk
General Reference
Knowledge Base
White Papers
Support
Help
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Broken Promises: How to Fix Broken Dashboards
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#TC18
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Thank you!
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Resources for Audience & Purpose
Telling Great Stories
Consider the Audience
Fit the Chart to the Story
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Resources for Joins Troubleshooting
Using LODs to resolve duplicate data
Using Blends
Joins
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Resources for Calcs Troubleshooting
Functions
Aggregations
Operators
Create or Edit a Calculated Field
Overview: Level of Detail Expressions
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Order of Operations
Filter Your Data Carefully
Improve Performance with Context Filters
Resources for Filters and Actions Troubleshooting
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Resources for Visual Best Practices
Best Practices for Effective Dashboards
Good to Great: Better Data Visualizations
Top 100 Tableau Public Vizzes