The end of line trend indicator can provide an effective visual hint in dashboard.

Sometimes your axis is busy with dual charts. So you don't have the luxury of using dual axis to create an end-of-line trend indicator. Here we are going to show that you don't need dual axis to do that.

The trick is easy: put it inside the Label.

This is how the last variance is calculated:

Put it in the Label:

Here are a couple variants of implementation:

- Custom Number formatting ;●;

Select red color for the font in the Label. If you want to use arrow to be the indicator, try this.
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When clicking the download button for a viz on Tableau Server or Tableau Public, we often see that the data and crosstab options are greyed out.

What should we do about it?

First, we have to understand that a dashboard is composed of multiple worksheets or charts. Each sheet or chart has its own data set. One has to be specific on which data set to download.

Second, click on a specific chart/table/sheet and then go to download button. You will see the data and crosstab button being active.

Just wrote a post on Placing Labels on Tiled Map last week. Again, found that this tiled map has non-aligned labels by Michael Mixon. Otherwise, it is a great viz with very good uses of dual axis, color schemes and drill downs. BTW this viz is part of the #MakeoverMonday week33 project.

Seems like that placing labels in an aligned position on tiled map has been a challenge for many.

We can't use dual axis as described in the previous post, since it's already been used in this viz.

Georgia Chen created a tiled map for a recent #MakeoverMonday project. She had a hard time placing the labels on the tiles. And she ended up doing it manually. Yes, you can drag and drop the labels to a place manually.

Tiled map is often used chart type, which is a kind of small multiples. In a tiled map, there is always a label in each tile to indicate the actual location or the category of the tile.
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