Vizible Difference

Subtitle: Sunburst Chart with Labels Inside and Categorical Sequential Colors

Here I am presenting how to design Sunburst Chart with practical considerations, such as:

Labels insideCategorical sequential colors with dynamic data.The design will be based on map layers, a new feature since Tableau desktop version 2020.4. This post by Sebastian Depalla is a great source of inspiration.

First, here are two very important techniques when dealing with map layers.

Turn off Map Background

This is actually the last step. After you have done all the following steps, turn off the map background: set Menu Map>Background Maps to None. Once it's off, you can't add layers.

[ Followup guest post by Hans Romeijn: Calculating Period-To-Date/PoP with Indicators for Better Performance ]

Year to Date (YTD) and Year over Year (YoY) calculations are very important in business dashboards. Jim Dehner recently wrote a great post on the topic. It inspired me to present additional approaches for the issues.

Calculating YTD and YoY without LOD

We have been using YTD and YoY long before LOD (level of details) appeared. So we are not dependent on LOD at all.