Chapter 27

Tableau Part 4: Stories and Dates

Learning Objectives

Upon completing all the content in this chapter you should be able to do the following:

  1. Effectively handle datetime data in Tableau and use it in your visualizations
  2. Implement the best practices introduced earlier in the textbook with Tableau
  3. Combine visualizations to make dashboards and stories

Key Terminology

Here is a list of key terms for this chapter broken down by the page upon which the term first appears. Make note of each term and its meaning.

Dates and Times

  1. discrete date fields
  2. continuous date fields

Tableau Stories and Dashboards

  1. story
  2. dashboard
  3. story point
  4. worksheet

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