28.1. Tableau Part 4 - Stories and Dates

28.1.1. Reading

Read the following articles, and watch the videos.

Dates

Dates and Times.

Continuous Dates.

Tableau Tips

Watch Only: Publishing and Embedding Vizzes (4:01min).

Choose the Right Chart Type for Your Data.

Watch Only: Do No Harm Guide (7:08 min video).

Stories

Create a Story.

Watch Only: Creating Stories (5:55 min).

Watch Only: Formatting Story Points Links (6:54 min).

Story examples to explore:

Twenty-Two White Orchids by Will Strouse.``

F1 Story by Matt Francis.

State Story 5.8 by Center for Employment Equity Embargoed Visualizations.

Earthquake Trend Story Example by Tableau Help Content.

28.1.1.1. Suggested Resources (not required reading)

Custom Date Formats.

• Great resource for the plethora of date formats and how to work with them.

Date Functions.

• Collection of date functions with definitions and examples.

The Story Workspace.

• Resource that explains the controls, panes, and features of the story workspace.

Best Practices for Telling Great Stories.

• An introduction to why and how to tell stories with Tableau.

Best Practices for Effective Dashboards.

• An introduction to making/keeping your dashboards easy to use

28.1.2. Check Your Understanding

Question

Dates cannot be changed once you have connected your data set to Tableau

1. True

2. False

Question

When working with a relational data source, Tableau defaults dates as ______?

1. Dimensions

2. Continuous fields

Question

Converting a date to a continuous field is very useful when looking at trends.

1. True

2. False

Question

What type of viz is best for showing correlations?

1. Line Chart

2. Pie Chart

3. Scatter Plot

4. Flow Chart

Question

In the end, most data represents people.

1. True

2. False

Question

Match the following:

Dashboard	is based on different view or dashboard, or different stages of a single viz
Story Point	is a single viz
Worksheet	is collection of several views to compare a variety of data all at once