Tableau: Creating Interactive Data Visualizations

Customizing mark shapes

From branding your company to distinguishing the data, custom mark shapes can help in customizing the visualization. Once you have the desired shape of files, you can easily use them instead of using Tableau's standard mark shapes.

Getting ready

This recipe requires modifying the custom shape image files, which could be of the JPG, BMP, and GIF formats. Specifically, it makes the background transparent while keeps the original size of 32 by 32 pixels. The tutorial given at http://www.interworks.com/blogs/iwbiteam/2012/01/27/using-custom-shapes-tableau explains in detail how to modify the shape properties. For this recipe, you can choose to create and modify your own shapes or download the ones used in this recipe.

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