Creating A First Dashboard and Resizing It

Quick reference

• 00:04 Okay, in this video I want to start to talk about creating dashboards.
• 00:08 Now dashboards are probably one of the most interesting and
• 00:11 exciting parts of Tableau.
• 00:12 They allow us to take all of our visualizations, or
• 00:15 any of them that we want, and put them all together in one place, in one dashboard,
• 00:20 in one sort of presentation screen, and have everything in still working order.
• 00:25 So we can even click through these things like we do, and
• 00:29 this animation stuff will work on the dashboard.
• 00:32 So it's a great tool for, at a glance, looking at your data,
• 00:35 comparing different charts.
• 00:37 Right now, if we want to compare this to that, we have to click back and forth.
• 00:41 And that's not great.
• 00:42 So if these two charts were right next to each other on a screen,
• 00:45 it would be much better.
• 00:46 That's what dashboards are for.
• 00:47 So in this video, we're going to start to build a dashboard.
• 00:50 We're going to create a dashboard and then resize it.
• 00:52 In the next video, we'll start adding actual data to it and
• 00:54 doing all the fun things.
• 00:56 So before we do that, let's build out a couple more of these visualizations.
• 01:00 We've only got two.
• 01:01 We got this Dog Colors one that we never did anything with.
• 01:04 Let's really quickly just grab our Color, drop it over there.
• 01:07 Let's also grab our data, drop that in there.
• 01:10 And let's change this into a pie chart.
• 01:12 So okay, that looks good.
• 01:14 Let's create one more, and I'm going to call this one,
• 01:19 let's rename this Names or maybe Dog Names.
• 01:23 So let's grab our Dog Names, bring that up here.
• 01:25 And let's add all of them, and let's grab our count.
• 01:32 And maybe we'll make this into maybe this,
• 01:37 or that, or maybe this.
• 01:40 We can come up here, and click on this, and filter these.
• 01:43 So let's go to Field and filter by count.
• 01:46 So we have at the top, the highest count names.
• 01:48 So there's 1364 Bellas and 987 Buddys.
• 01:53 So okay, that's cool.
• 01:53 So maybe we want some color in there, I don't know.
• 01:58 And we can play around with the size of this, make it a little bigger if we want.
• 02:01 But so we've got now a few different visualizations.
• 02:04 So in the coming videos, we can sort of pull all these together into a dashboard.
• 02:08 So now, how do we create a dashboard?
• 02:10 Well, it's incredibly easy.
• 02:11 Remember when we wanted to create a new worksheet, we came down here and
• 02:15 hovered over this first little box with this little square that has a little
• 02:18 plus sign next to it?
• 02:19 Well, that's the button to create a new worksheet.
• 02:22 We want the one right next to it.
• 02:24 If we hover over this, you can see New Dashboard.
• 02:27 So go ahead and click this, and then we can right-click and
• 02:30 rename this anything we want.
• 02:31 I'm just going to call it my dog dashboard, whatever.
• 02:36 And you'll notice this is the dashboard.
• 02:38 So we have now created a dashboard, it's just that easy.
• 02:41 Now there's not much in there, actually, there's nothing at all in there.
• 02:44 But we've got a dashboard.
• 02:46 So the first thing you want to do is you'll notice that it's kind of small.
• 02:49 It's only taking up this much space right here, this white block right there.
• 02:53 And you're almost certainly going to want a bigger dashboard.
• 02:55 So I want to stretch this all the way out to the whole size of our screen.
• 03:00 How do we do that?
• 03:00 Well, really easy, we just come over here to Size.
• 03:03 Click this guy, and we've got a minimum size and a maximum size.
• 03:06 I'm going to change the maximum size to, I don't know, let's just try 1500.
• 03:11 That's not going to be big enough, but we could try it.
• 03:13 And you see, boom, it resizes like that.
• 03:15 And we still got some space here.
• 03:17 So maybe I'll change this to 1800, that seems a little too big.
• 03:22 You're just going to want to play around with this to get it to the size
• 03:25 of your monitor.
• 03:26 1700 also a little too big, moving down to 1600.
• 03:29 Okay, that's looking better.
• 03:31 And maybe, I don't know, 1650, I think that's good.
• 03:34 And you can do the same thing with the height here.
• 03:37 I'm going to change this, too.
• 03:38 It's at 860 now, I'll change it to 900.
• 03:41 Okay, that looks pretty good, and we're ready to go.
• 03:43 So here is our dashboard.
• 03:45 In the next video, we'll start to add stuff to it.
• 03:47 But it's really just that easy.
• 03:49 Now we can click out of here, and we're ready to go.
• 03:53 So your monitor size and resolution will likely be different than mine.
• 03:57 So you're really going to want to play around with this size to make it whatever
• 04:00 size you want.
• 04:02 I'll leave that to you and your monitor size, but just that easy.
• 04:05 So that's all for this video.
• 04:06 In the next video,
• 04:07 we'll look at actually adding our visualizations to our dashboard.

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