Double congratulations to Rody Zakovich for being named a
Tableau Zen Master of 2016-2017 and for winning the
Viz of the Day on 9/9/2016! Rody deserves it absolutely! Rody has brought a great impact on the Tableau community in the last couple years, for which I am a witness.
In his latest viz, Rody has got a neat design for the tooltip. It has a well aligned box score table in it. Very delightful design!
When I saw the text table, I saw potential for further visualization. After some tweak, I got the following design of tooltips, where we see the visual comparison of scores at each quarter, half time and full time. Click the image to view the interactive version.
You might notice
▲ and
▼ for indicating win or loss. That is literally a single bit of information.
I believe every bit of information is worth visualizing. It can bring new insights and make a difference.
PS. This is part of a series of efforts to add visualization in the regular tooltips. Previous examples are
#TweakThursday 12: Likert Scale in Tooltips
#TweakThursday 4: Tooltips with Bar Chart
Very nice tweak Alex! I actually thought of doing this, but decided against because I thought the large tooltip was distracting, but seeing it here, it does add a lot of value. And thank you for your kind words! Really enjoying this series, we have to chat sometime on ASCII charts/characters in Tooltips. Check out my post here for a way to shorthand calc them http://growingupdata.blogspot.com/2016/07/more-ascii-and-string-charts-in-tableau.html. REPLACE(SPACE(CALC)), makes it easier to be dynamic!
ReplyDeleteRody, yes we should chat about it. I didn't know your blog before. Will add it to my watch list. Your blog on the ascii art and formula is very nice. Thanks for the pointer!
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