Got to love Tableau’s DVZ’s

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You’ve got to love the simplicity of Dynamic Visibility Zones!

In my definition of Powerful Dashboards in the Tableau Insights Collective I harp on about the 3 Easy’s….and #DVZ’s fill the “Easy To Build” and quite often the “Easy to Use” buckets with plenty of overspill!

Which is why I enjoyed rushing through this #WOW brought to us by Erica Hughes who challenged us to “Excel at Tableau Interactivity with Dynamic Zone Visibility”.

Here are my Top 3 benefits of “Easy To Build”:

1???Speed to market of a new dashboard to deliver insights to your users - or you as an analyst

2???Quicker to document. Now, some people love to document. I’m not one of those people, so anything to make that process quicker and easier the better. “Easy to build” certainly facilitates this.

3???Easy to hand over to Business As Usual team members to maintain, improve and update.

(..I should add that easy to build when solving complex problems is often more fun..but don’t tell your boss.)

Making complex things, simple, is hard.

Using tools like DVZ’s to speed up the build process then allows you to spend more time on the analysis as well as the “simplification” of the problem and the delivery of Easy To Use data products.

Keeping things Easy To Build means you can spend more time on the analysis, and the fine tuning, that helps increase the speed to insight for the user once they open up the dashboard.

For example, in one of last weeks coaching sessions, we reviewed someones dashboard.

It was already a great dashboard ticking loads of boxes, but as requested, the crew got to work.

We identified a couple of tweaks to help provide a balanced focus on the information on the dashboard.

(Some of the formatting drew attention to somethings and therefore move focus away from others - when they didn’t warrant it. Not misleading per se, but drawing attention away from useful insights.)

We improved the flow of the dashboard.

And we identified “the next step” to improve insights whilst still providing the level of detail needed buy the users.

All in a safe space and without stakeholder scrutiny.

I can’t wait to hear the stakeholders feedback in our next session.

Check out my version of this challenge HERE!

How are you using Dynamic Visibility Zones to speed up and simplify your dashboard building process?

Oh, and because I hate documenting so much, I thought I’d give the 7 day free trial of RapidDox a spin - click the link below if you want to try it yourself! Useful? I think so.

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