Database Reference
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Annotations
Add titles, lead-in text, tooltips, labels, notes, instructions, sources, and other pertinent
textual information to explain to your audience how to interact with the dashboard and/or
how to interpret the data.
Objects
Add images, layout containers, blank spaces, and web page objects as needed to provide
additional context to the visualizations, as long as they serve a real purpose.
Actions
Configure dashboard interactivity using actions to filter, highlight, and hyperlink the
various Sheets and Objects in ways that help your audience explore and answer real
questions.
Formatting
Configure the fit and finish of the dashboard by adjusting fonts, colors, borders, grid
lines, and shading to remove distractions and enhance the visual appeal of the dashboard.
Delivery
Share the dashboard with your audience via your chosen medium and channel, whether
guided or unguided.
Results
Find out whether your message was received, properly interpreted, and found effective in
achieving your goals.
Let's use a few different examples to walk through these steps and build interactive dash-
boards in Tableau. We'll consider an updated version of the World Bank Internet usage data
set we considered in
Chapter 10
. Let's start by first taking a look at a sample of the data set,
as shown in
Figure 13-1
.
