Chapter 30 A Video Tutorial for Creating a Data Story in Tableau

Xinyi Liu

30.1 Introduction

Tableau is a powerful tool for data visualization. This part uses the topic of “An Analysis of Different Movie Filming Locations in New York City” as an example to provide you with a 26-minute video tutorial for using Tableau. After following the steps of this video tutorial, you will learn the right procedures for designing and creating a data story. Specifically, you will learn the following things.

1. How to draw different kinds of plots in sheets.
2. How to realize interactivity by using Tableau.
3. How to combine multiple sheets in one dashboard.
4. How to create a data story with multiple dashboards.

The link to this tutorial is as follows: https://youtu.be/TZ2fYeDGJHk

30.2 Data Source

You can find the data from the following link: https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Business/Filming-Locations-Scenes-from-the-City-/qb3k-n8mm You can also use the file in the resources folder directly: resources/tableau_data_story_tutorial/Interactive_Map_Data.xml