Use case – Self-service Analytics

Imagine your line manager gives you the following task:

Create a dashboard for me in which I can easily spot all correlated indices. I need it by tomorrow morning.

Now, take a few minutes before you continue reading and think about how you would tackle this question. Write down your steps, open the workbook related to this chapter from https://public.tableau.com/profile/marleen.meier, and follow your steps; time how long it takes you.

And now, I will illustrate one way I could imagine solving this task:

1. First, I opened the file in Tableau Prep in order to get insights on the descriptive analytics:

With this dataset, I actually didn't see too much in Prep. It's 1 row per country and another 65 columns with different indices. And because I know that my boss wants to see a quantitative analysis on the correlations, I can continue...