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Tableau Cookbook - Recipes for Data Visualization

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Product type Book
Published in Dec 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784395513
Pages 504 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Shweta Sankhe-Savale Shweta Sankhe-Savale
Profile icon Shweta Sankhe-Savale

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Tableau Cookbook – Recipes for Data Visualization
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
1. Keep Calm and Say Hello to Tableau 2. Ready to Build Some Charts? Show Me! 3. Hungry for More Charts? Dig In! 4. Slice and Dice – Grouping, Sorting, and Filtering Data 5. Adding Flavor – Creating Calculated Fields 6. Serve It on a Dashboard! 7. The Right MIX – Blending Multiple Data Sources 8. Garnish with Reference Lines, Trends, Forecasting, and Clustering 9. Bon Appétit! Tell a Story and Share It with others 10. Formatting in Tableau for Desserts Index

Creating a Heat map


In the earlier sections, we read about the Text table, which just shows numbers. Then we read about the Highlight table where we used a color in addition to the text to find out which values were high and which values were low. A Heat map is a step advanced than the Highlight table. With a Heat map, we can compare both the size and color values. In a Heat map, we can also compare two different Measures for a combination of Dimensions.

Getting ready

To create a Heat map, we will compare Sales and Profit for product categories across Regions. Let's understand how to build a Heat map.

How to do it…

  1. Create a new sheet by pressing Ctrl + M on your keyboard and rename it to Heat map.

  2. Next, let us drag Category into the Rows shelf and Region into the Columns shelf.

  3. Then we will change the mark type to Squares from the marks dropdown in the Marks shelf. Refer to the following image:

  4. Next we will Sales from the Measures pane and drop it into the Size shelf in the Marks card. Refer to...

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