Vizible Difference

There are always more than one ways to skin a cat. In Tableau, there is always one more way to design the same chart. Mastering them will give us more options to satisfy the various requirements we may be asked for.

Line chart is one of the most basic ones. Yet we can draw them in more ways than we care of. But there are many intricacies that are interesting to master.

In graphical design, every tiny bit of space counts because the canvas may be limited or because of alignment with other parts of the dashboard. In this post, we are going to show how to design line charts with minimum axis offset.

Axis Offset with Date in Columns Shelf

This is the default way of creating a line chart.

I almost named the post as Charting "Top N and Others" via Post-filtering. Read on to understand why.

Visualizing "Top N and Others" is an often required business use case. A popular solution is by creating a top N set. That's the one I have been using through the years.

I wrote a post in the context of a pie chart back in 2014 on grouping those smaller slices into 'Others'. 

Recently, I encountered an issue at work. The dashboard won't let me using set.