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Figure 12-2. An illustrative example of a tiled dashboard
The following are six distinct advantages to using Dashboards over Sheets in Tableau, illus-
trated in
Figure 12-3
:
Descriptive text
Titles, lead-in paragraphs, references, and attributions that describe the topic and give im-
portant background information can be added and positioned.
KPIs and metrics
Important metrics, KPIs, or summary values can be added, often toward the top of the
dashboard, that communicate the “big picture.”
