Creating a dashboard with Tableau

Tableau makes it easy to assemble a dashboard from the visual analysis tabs you have already created. We will use it to build from the weather station data example in Chapter 6, Getting to Know Your Data - Exploring IoT Data. We will also walk-through the hierarchy of questions process in the course of building the dashboard.

The dashboard walk-through

There is also web server software for Tableau, called Tableau Server, that allows you to easily publish a dashboard from the desktop software so that it is viewable through a browser. Other users can then easily interact with it. Although Tableau Server is outside the scope of this book, you would most likely want to publish the dashboards you create to it.

Hierarchy of Questions example

For this simple example, let's assume the audience is a government water use planning group for the State of Colorado. The group wants to understand how many weather stations are reporting precipitation information and a sense...