IKIGAI is a Japanese concept for a reason for being, or in French, une raison d'être. Also IKIGAI provides a framework for analyzing the relationships between 4 traits of life:

1.What do you love
2.What are you good at
3.What can you be paid for
4.What does the world need

If you are doing what you love (1) and what you are good at (2), you are living your passion.

If you are doing (1), (2) and (3), then you are combining your passion and profession. You are satisfied but you might feel a sense of uselessness.

If your life satisfies all four, then you have reached the state of IKIGAI, that is the ultimate reason of being.

IKIGAI has a number of visualizations done before. I for one would like to see its visualization being done in Tableau. Voila, here you go.

Note that the analysis of IKIGAI inspires me. It helps me understand myself and my life a little better. It's the kind of vizzes I love to create.

This is probably the last viz of the year for me. Wish everyone a great and happy new year!
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Jake and I collaborated on a dashboard. He told me that he learnt a way to create an in-place help page in Tableau. He first saw it at a conference somewhere and couldn't recall who the speaker was. So I am blogging here about it but the credit goes to somebody else. If anyone knows who the original creator is, leave a comment below.

The key idea is to float a semi transparent worksheet on top of the dashboard, where a help text box is strategically placed on top of each chart. This way, we can explain how to view each chart and what data points are important, etc. This worksheet is collapsible by a show/hide button. 

Below I would like to show how this worksheet can be constructed.

1. Sheet with a single data mark.

  • Double click the empty space in Marks panel and add two single quotes. Make the null pill a text label. This creates a single null mark.
  • Set the view as "Entire View"

2. Create an show/hide button

  • Go to the target dashboard
  • Drag a floating vertical container to the dashboard, making it cover all the area of interest.
  • Drag the Single Null Mark sheet and drop it into the above container. Hide the sheet title.
  • Create an open/close button for the container and place the button at the top-right corner.

3. Add annotations

  • Format the sheet background opacity as 70% in the layout manager             
  • Select area annotations and place them anywhere of interest. 
  • Write help text and format it to highlight important messages.  
  • The text can serve as functional guide and/or insight guide.

Here is an example. Feel free to download the workbook and explore. Click the "i" button at the top-right corner to view the in-place help. 

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