For day 4 of Dashboard Week we looked at Candies!
I used Tableau Prep to create three different outputs from the 4 years that the data is recorded from. The reason I did this is because in my original ideation I wanted to show data about gender, age, and the total aggregations of opinions on candies:
![](https://www.thedataschool.co.uk/content/images/wordpress/2019/06/1-1-1024x215.png)
Then I used an online sketchpad to sketch out my initial ideas:
![](https://www.thedataschool.co.uk/content/images/wordpress/2019/06/2-1-1024x701.png)
Resulting in this dashboard (designed in web editor only):
![](https://www.thedataschool.co.uk/content/images/wordpress/2019/06/3-2-1024x451.png)
However, I wasn’t feeling the design or the story at this point, so I decided to refocus and deliver something more concise and asthetically pleasing:
![](https://www.thedataschool.co.uk/content/images/wordpress/2019/06/4-2.png)
This meant that unfortunately I wasted some time on prepping multiple data outputs, when I only needed one in my final iteration. It’s a good lesson to (re)learn, and something I need to reinforce in my personal workflow.
Overall, I found Web Editor difficult to use as it lacked alot of the functionality that Tableau desktop comes with – like changing the colour of your background!!!!!