CHAPTER 8

STORYBOARDING FRAME BY FRAME

This chapter picks up where the previous chapter left off by looking deeper at the process of constructing a data narrative by visually exploring data, building purposeful visualizations, and organizing them to tell a story. This chapter covers how to build a sequence of data visualizations, reviews how to build dashboards and organize them as well as individual visualizations in story points, and discusses how to make use of some of Tableau’s storytelling features.

In an August 2017 episode of “The Nerdist” podcast, celebrated American astrophysicist—and phenomenal data storyteller—Neil DeGrasse Tyson, spoke of the importance of learning how to process and understand today’s waterhose of information, ...

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