Week 38: Discovery Dashboard

One of my absolute favorite things about Tableau is that not only is it a fantastic data display tool, but it is amazing at data exploration and discovery.  While you’re in the flow of analysis there are tons of built in features that provide you feedback, awareness, and insight into your data.  Everything from displaying the number of marks on a sheet in the lower left corner (along with the sum of a measure) to exposing the worksheet summary card.  You can customize it to show you so many options and it’s one of the first tools I use when getting hands on with new data.

But what if you want to enhance your end-users’ capabilities and provide them with the same interaction you’re afforded in desktop?  Enter this week’s challenge: the Discovery Dashboard.  Designed off of a scatterplot, it’s goal is to give interactors the same features, insights, and tools that you passively have access to – all from Server and without the necessity of desktop or knowledge of how to develop.

This week your challenge is to recreate this guy (this is animated, so give it a moment!):

Requirements

• Dashboard size: 1100 x 900; 4 sheets tiled
• Create a scatterplot of Sales vs. Profit with Segment on color
• Create BAN of total marks, total sales, total profit
  • Include supporting information (min, max, slicing information)
• Create controls that allow the user to
  • Change how the data is sliced (scattered)
  • Separate out segments to different rows
  • Separate out years to different columns
  • Add or remove reference lines
• Match titles of each axis
• Match tooltips
• BANs should respond to selection inside of the scatterplot
• Don’t forget the color legend & line formatting!

Data from this week comes from the Saved Data Source in Tableau 2018 (Sample – Superstore), download here if needed.

After you finish your workout, share on Twitter using the hashtag #WorkoutWednesday and tag @AnnUJackson, @LukeStanke, and @RodyZakovich.  (Tag @VizWizBI if you have space, he would love to see your work too!)

Also, don’t forget to track your progress using this Workout Wednesday form.