From the course: Advanced Tableau for Climate Professionals

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Design your climate dashboard layout for storytelling

Design your climate dashboard layout for storytelling

From the course: Advanced Tableau for Climate Professionals

Design your climate dashboard layout for storytelling

- [Instructor] In this video, we are assembling all of the visual components into one complete dashboard designed for storytelling and climate policy support. Open a dashboard template, practice tab. First, let's set the size to automatic. Depending on your monitor or recording this, you can adjust it, but for now we'll stick with auto. Now open the layout tab. Everything is netted under tiled. Click to expand it. You will see horizontal container as the main structural, right? Separating two major blocks, the icon section and the dashboard section. Let's focus on the dashboard block. Let's expand the main container. It's split into two vertical containers, one for KPIs and one for chart. Getting this structural write is important because the way you organize containers affects how clearly your dashboard scales analyze. The KPI section holds four cars, and there are arranged in two by two grid. We'll bring in the top and bottom section of the KPI that we already made. Each KPI card is…

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