Creating Stories

Quick reference

• 00:04 Okay, in this video I want to talk about creating stories.
• 00:07 Now if we come down here to the bottom of this bar here, we see these three things.
• 00:11 And we remember the first one is to create a new worksheet.
• 00:14 The second one is we remember to create a new dashboard,
• 00:17 we hover have ever see new dashboard.
• 00:19 The third one is to create a new story.
• 00:21 And stories are sort of a combination of worksheets and
• 00:25 dashboards, think of them as a slideshow, right?
• 00:28 And you can add like I said, visualizations, worksheets and
• 00:32 dashboards into a coherent presentation, a story.
• 00:35 Then we can go up here and we can right click and
• 00:38 change the name of this if we want to My Dog Story, I don't know.
• 00:43 So we can apply that, boom, there it is.
• 00:46 And now same thing like with worksheets, we need to come down here and
• 00:49 sort of resize this guy.
• 00:50 So let me just change this to like 1600 by 964,
• 00:54 that's fine, or I want to change to 900 kind of sits in there.
• 01:00 And now just like everything else, you can drag and drop your worksheets,
• 01:04 your visualizations and your dashboards.
• 01:07 So let's start out with the dashboard that we just created. Let's use that images and
• 01:10 text one, we just bring it over, drop it in and there it is.
• 01:13 Now we can add a caption here.
• 01:15 So let's say: Dog Dashboard.
• 01:18 So this is our first story point.
• 01:20 Think of it as the first slide in your PowerPoint presentation,
• 01:23 and we can add the next one.
• 01:25 By come on over here and clicking on new story point, and then blank.
• 01:29 If you want to duplicate it, you can but we want a blank one.
• 01:32 So let's bring our dog breed worksheet in there, and boom, there it is.
• 01:37 And we can change this to dog breed.
• 01:42 There we go.
• 01:43 And now let's say we want another one so we can drop another one in and
• 01:46 let's do dog breeds with license.
• 01:48 Remember that has the, by whether they're spayed or neutered male or female,
• 01:52 so we can have that one in there.
• 01:54 So let's change this to dog breed by license type, okay.
• 02:02 So we've got a few of these and we can keep going if we wanted to,
• 02:06 we could add another one and say dog colors.
• 02:09 Remember, that's this guy, let's just say dog colors.
• 02:12 Now you'll notice you can sort of navigate around with this thing up here, right?
• 02:17 Or you can just move to the next one with these arrows.
• 02:22 So let's come to the beginning here.
• 02:23 And now to create this thing and to sort of start it,
• 02:26 we need to go into presentation mode.
• 02:28 So we come up to the top here and hover over this icon and
• 02:30 you see it says presentation mode.
• 02:32 So to go into presentation mode, either click this button, or you can click the f7
• 02:36 key at the top of your keyboard, probably just easiest to click this button.
• 02:39 You see it goes into full screen mode, very cool.
• 02:43 And now you can give your presentation.
• 02:45 You can project this up onto a screen or a big TV or laptop, whatever you have.
• 02:49 And you can talk and as you do you can go through and now it all works.
• 02:54 So we can click on the different things in our little legend menu thing here and
• 02:58 the things move around very nice.
• 03:01 And then go to the next one and we can see the different things and it's very cool.
• 03:06 And now how these act are how they act in the visualization.
• 03:09 So if you want this to act a different way,
• 03:11 you have to create it a different way in the visualization.
• 03:13 Once we're dragging and dropping it into the story, it's pretty much set,
• 03:16 we're not really going to be able to move it around.
• 03:19 Or resize it very much in this visualization.
• 03:22 As you can see, this pie chart is very small and just sort of right there, but
• 03:27 like everything, we can click on the different things, and it's really cool.
• 03:32 To get out of presentation mode, just hit the Escape key on your keyboard, and
• 03:36 then boom, it goes right back.
• 03:37 So those are stories, very cool,
• 03:39 very nice way to create sort of like a PowerPoint presentation.
• 03:42 Only obviously without using PowerPoint but it's the same look and
• 03:46 feel you have slides basically, the story points.
• 03:49 And you create new ones by clicking the blank button, and
• 03:51 that's really all there is to it.
• 03:53 So that's all for this video,
• 03:54 in the next video we'll look at opening up saved files.

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