I have 2 columns that I have in Tableau and one of them is date (Column A) and the other one is survey answer ( Satisfied, not satisfied, no comment). On the survey answer column I would like to indicate its growth over date (column A) using red or green arrow. Any thoughts on how I can to do that?
have you seen this post by Jonathan Drummey?
http://drawingwithnumbers.artisart.org/older-but-still-useful-conditional-formatting/
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I have multiple column of survey answers from excel in tableau with the answers being 1,2,3,4,5. I want to show across the average for each column but in singular bar graph. For example row 1 would have a bar chart showing the average for that excel column, row 2 would show the average for its column etc. I would love the name of each excel column (Answer from survey) to be on the left side of the chart. However I can't figure it out since every time I drag the question into the row tab it starts showing (1-5) and doesn't just keep the average of the column. Thanks!
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After replicating and trying what you described, my suggestions is to drag "Measure Values" (from Measure list on the sidebar) dropping in the "Columns" tray, and "Measure Names" on Rows.
Then use Measure Names as a filter, selecting the questions.
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I have a table with 4 columns grouped by first 2 columns. Something like below
Company Department Department Rating Org Org Rating Emp Type Employee
A Sales 1 XX 2 External John
Ops 2 XX 1 Hybrid Mike
B HR 1 YY 2 Internal Richard
Dev 3 ZZ 3 Internal Julie
I want to highlight Department and Org based on values in ratings column (1- yellow, 2- red, 3-blue)
Could anyone guide on how to make it happen on tableau?
Tableau by default will only highlight measure values so in order to highlight dimensions you need to trick it a bit.
First, you'll want to create two dummy columns with the formula min(1). You can either create this through a calculated field or just double click and type them in the columns shelf.
In the Marks card for each of the two new measures (not the All card), place Department on the text field in one and Org in the text field of the other. Set the Mark type to be Text on both of them.
Create a calculated field to define the colors. The actual values don't matter here as you'll assign a color to them latter. Put this on the All marks card on the Color Shelf.
At this point, you might have something like...
Now to finish it off you can do a few things:
Double click on the color squares in the legend to reassign them
Change formatting on the measure to get rid of the axis, zero lines, etc
Move the label from the bottom to the top by creating a dual axis.
I am learning Tableau using sample dataset Sample Superstore. I am trying to find out, For a given period let us say January 2012, what percentage of sales were shipped using a specific product container (e.g. Jumbo Box)
When containers are in Rows, I get 2.22% and when I flip row to column and vice-versa I get 9.17%. Would appreciate some inputs to clarify this.
2.22%
9.17%
When you use table calculation the values will differ according to the viz and what type of calculation you have used. For example table down will calculate from top to bottom and table across will calculate from left to right. Like this you will see many other options for calculations.
In below example I have used running total with table across that is direction from Left to Right column values (2014,2015,2016,2017,2018).
Example:
Image1 - Original Data(without table calculation)
Data with table calculation - running total(table across)
In below image, Left to Right values are Ship Dates against Segments. Look at the Yellow color highlighted row. Year 2015 for Consumer Segment the sales value is 40,656 but in the original data(Image1) it is 24,635. The reason it is showing 40,656 is because table calculation is performed with running total by table across(left to right), so the original value 24,635 is added with previous Year's(2014) value 16,021. Hence 16021 + 24635 = 40656. It means Left value(16021) is added with the Right value(24635). This pattern will continue till the right most value.
Image2
Columns and rows are switched
In below image(Image3) Left to Right values are Segments against Ship Dates. The Columns and rows are switched. The value of Corporate Segment for the Year 2014 is changed to 25950(blue circle) because the left side value 16021 is added with the original value 9929(Image1).
Image3
So I have what seems like a pretty dumb question but I haven't been able to find an example online or figure out how to do it myself.
I want to create a visualization with the dimension headers going down the y axis and the values going across the x axis. I'm creating a cross tab/text table kind of visualization. It's just one name, an address, some demographic info. If you try to use each field as it's own column, the info gets pretty cramped. Using the transpose button doesn't work, and dropping the pills on to the row instead of column doesn't work. I've tried changing them from dimensions to attributes, but still no luck. Any tips would be very much appreciated.
Update:
Before:
ColA | ColB|
A | B |
After:
ColA | A
ColB | B
Generally if you want the dimension headers on Y and the values on X, you put the dimension pill on the rows shelf and the measure pill on the columns shelf. You might want to change a dimension to a measure and use a COUNT() or COUNTD() for example to see how many people come from a given city.
If you want to actually display several different measures next to each other (say the number of distinct cities and the number of distinct zip codes) you can drag the "Measure Names" pill on the rows and the "Measure Values" pill on the columns and add or remove the pills you need/don't need.
If this is not what you need, it would be good if you could post a screenshot of your dashboard (including the shelves and the dimensions pane). THat usually helps a lot to see where your problem is.
I have a Tableau Public sheet with 4 years of data.
Each day has a value, and I am showing those daily values as a box plot - one for each month of each year.
Currently it is set up as 4 rows (1 for each year), and 12 columns.
See here:
https://public.tableausoftware.com/views/boxplotsbyyearmonth-dailyvalues/Sheet1?:embed=y&:display_count=no
What I want to do is drop to a single row, and show all 4 box plots side by side within each month, colored by year.
I can't elaborate what exactly I have tried, as I am new to Tableau, and have done a lot of clicking around looking for options, and have tried searching various sites and Google, to no avail.
Is there a simple trick to this, or is it something complex I have to do to?
UPDATE:
I have figured out how to get them lined up correctly, by dragging the year dimension to the columns section, which I had tried, but then I had to reset the other dimensions, and it took.
What I still can't figure out is the coloring.
By dragging the year to the color property, it colors the outliers, which are separate marks, but the box plots are not affected.
When you pull the year field to color it will color the marks (all of them, including the outliers). If you want to change the color of the box plot container you need to select it and right click.
I made some edits, let me know if this is what you were trying to accomplish:
https://public.tableausoftware.com/views/boxplots_0/Sheet1?:embed=y&:display_count=no