Being able to toggle between dimensions or measures in Tableau is a nice feature to have when building a story for users or just on the dashboard. Being able to give the user the ability to do this is easy and can be done in a couple of steps. The first step to creating a toggle is to “Create Parameter…” in Tableau by right clicking on the left side of the program: To create the parameter here you have to change the data type to String and allowable values to list. Once you’re done with that you can type in … Read More
A Commentary of Dual Axis Graphics
My philosophy of visualizing data is keep it simple, you want the audience to look at a graph and know within a few moments what it is showing. The key is for accuracy in interpreting the graph and speed; we need to be careful of potentially distorting the data because we don’t want the audience to misinterpret the graph too quickly. An easy way of distorting the data is changing the range of the axis which can cause the audience to believe there are more extreme changes in the data when there actually isn’t and the data is overall stable. … Read More