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3 Ways to Use Set Actions with Viz in Tooltips

Viz in tooltips allow you to place entire worksheets inside the tooltip of another worksheet. This type of interactivity allows for additional information to be presented without taking up space on a dashboard (but be careful about placing important information in the tooltip, since you can’t be positive it will be seen). In the current […]

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How I Created a Crossword Puzzle Using Set Actions

This week’s Makeover Monday looks at all the crossword puzzles created in the New York Times from 1993-2018 and breaks down how many of them were by women (with the caveat that 1993/2018 are partial years and puzzles where women collaborated are counted as by women). I almost passed on doing Makeover Monday this week, until […]

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View Similarly Ranked Items Using Set Actions and Table Calcs

The What Set actions (along with table calculations) can be used to show dimension values that are similarly ranked to a selected dimension value. For example, selecting the city of Houston will show which 4 cities had sales, in the corporate segment, that were similar to Houston’s corporate segment sales. In this example, “similar” is defined […]

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Kansas City is Mahomes Town

Patrick Mahomes, the 23 year old quarterback for the Kansas City Chiefs, has thrown 29 touchdown passesĀ in the first nine games of the NFL season. The Kansas City franchise record for touchdown passes in a season is 31, set by Len Dawson 54 years ago. The NFL record for touchdown passes in a season is 55, set by Peyton Manning in 2013. Use this visualization to look at every touchdown pass thrown by Mahomes, including the yardage and receiver.

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The David Beckham Effect

The November #SportsVizSunday challenge involved looking at MLS data, including attendance from 1996-2018. My initial thought was to create a visualization around my home team, Sporting Kansas City. I distinctly remember soccer being of very little relevance, the Wizards rebranding to SKC and getting a new stadium, and then soccer taking off in popularity around […]

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Create Interactive, Filterable Titles in Tableau

The What Katherine Riley wrote a piece about replacing traditional legends with colored text in a title.  She also introduced a new featrure in Flourish that would make each piece added as a legend in the title have the option to be used as a filter. I am a big fan of setting up a visualization […]

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The Great White Way

How much money are different shows raking in? What are the characteristics of the highest grossing shows? What does the revenue for hits look like compared to new shows?

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Add Bar Charts into Drill Down Table with Set Actions

The What “We want our data in a table” is a sure way to make any data visualization practitioner cringe. Yet it is a common request by stakeholders in the business world. The main argument against displaying data in a table is the inability to quickly and accurately tell the difference between values, especially when […]

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Create Custom Drop Lines Using Set Actions and Transparent Worksheets

The What Tableau Desktop includes a feature called drop lines that can be added to a graph (by right clicking on a mark and selecting drop lines > show drop lines). They then appear after clicking on any mark. There are some formatting options available, similar to reference lines. However, the biggest drawback to the […]

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Use Icons to Add and Remove Values from a Set

The What Set actions allow the user to choose what is included and excluded from a set. Through the use of icons/shapes, the user can select what values they want to see as part of the set. Note: this method requires a worksheet (for the icon), a set, and a set action for every value […]