In this tip, I show you how to create a calendar to use as a filter on a dashboard. This calendar is a heatmap, thus providing additional information in your dashboard that a regular date filter cannot.

If you are anything like me, you get super annoyed that the font in the selected value of a dropdown filter does not match the font of the text when you click the dropdown. Here's an example:

In this tip, I show you how to use chart icons along with parameter actions to allow users to select their preferred chart type. 

Set actions are super useful when you want to see how one thing compares to the rest. In this use case, I show you how you can click on a State and have all other States show as a comparison to the selected State.

This week's Workout Wednesday from Emma builds primarily on several previous challenges, primarily:

• Week 12: Highlight a Treemap
• Week 17: Product Spread Treemap (Part 1)
• Week 19: Product Spread Treemap (Part 2)
• Week 41: State to City Drilldown

Go to Emma's blog for the requirements. For me, this was pretty straightforward as I'd done the other challenges. The only part that tripped me up was the sorting of the States. Once I got that figured out, it all fell into place.

Good luck! Here's my viz:

Pretty straight forward Workout Wednesday this week. Here are Emma's requirements:

• The first chart should could the number of customers by the number of orders they have made.
• The first chart should have its bars coloured blue for 10 orders and above.
• The title and tooltip should match as well. The title and tooltip changes as you select a Region.
• The bottom chart (Top 10 products) should be filtered by the Region also. The top 10 products should change depending on the Region you select.
• When you click on a bar in the top chart it should also filter the top 10 products.
• The title and tooltip on the second chart should also change when you select a Region.