Tableau 10 Business Intelligence Cookbook

Chapter 3. Interactivity

In this chapter, we will cover:

• Creating a motion chart
• Creating a dynamic column/row trellis chart
• Creating a top/bottom N filter
• Comparing one to everything else
• Dynamically displaying dimensions
• Dynamically displaying and sorting measures
• Creating a custom date period filter

Introduction

Tableau can empower its audience by allowing them to interact with the visualization, ask more questions, answer those questions, and maybe even pique their curiosity into what other answers the viz can offer.

In this chapter, we will add a few more interactive components to our views. Interactivity in Tableau can be achieved in many different ways. In this chapter, we focus on using filters, parameters and calculated fields to give the users ...