Apr
2
Creating Visual Tooltips
[ An update on this topic has been posted: Creating Visual Tooltips Anywhere ]
Text tooltips could be a little dull. With visual tooltips, we have more options for data visualization. Drilldown is one of the easy options.
In the Tableau Ambassador 2016 viz, by hovering mouse on a person's picture, you will see a bigger picture and details.
My fellow Tableau Ambassador Rody Zakovich asked me to write about it. I am so obliged.
To illustrate the technique, I came up with a simple example. Please click the picture below to view the interactive version.
Here are the major steps for creating the visual tooltips in the above example:
1.Create a bar chart for the sales in 2011-2014, based on the superstore data set.
Text tooltips could be a little dull. With visual tooltips, we have more options for data visualization. Drilldown is one of the easy options.
In the Tableau Ambassador 2016 viz, by hovering mouse on a person's picture, you will see a bigger picture and details.
My fellow Tableau Ambassador Rody Zakovich asked me to write about it. I am so obliged.
To illustrate the technique, I came up with a simple example. Please click the picture below to view the interactive version.
Here are the major steps for creating the visual tooltips in the above example:
1.Create a bar chart for the sales in 2011-2014, based on the superstore data set.
