This week we explored the cost of 20g of protein in various foods. During Watch Me Viz, I showed how to create toggles to allow the user to filter by vegan and vegetarian foods. I did this with parameter actions; if you want to learn more, watch the video below.

In the end, though, my fancy filtering with parameter actions didn't quite work out. I hadn't account for the option when the user might want to look at all foods. So I ended up using basic filtering. I overcooked the whole process, but I bet you'll learn something anyway.

I then went through the entire dashboard design process using containers, padding, shading and more. Check that out if you're interested in learning how to use layout contains.

Here's the #WatchMeViz recording, followed by the interactive viz. Enjoy and thanks for watching!

Having looked at the original visualization this week (here), it was pretty clear to me that the creators desired to create a KPI style dashboard. In a way it's good that I picked up on it that way. However, it wasn't designed particularly uclarly well to communicate most efficiently.

I decided during Watch Me Viz that I would stick with their idea of a KPI dashboard, but design it in a way that I thought would be easier to understand.

As per normal, it took way too long to faff about with the formatting. I made a couple of small changes after I finished the live stream. Click on the image below the video to check it out. Leave a comment on the video on YouTube if you have any questions. (Comments aren't appearing on the blog for some reason).

Have a wonderful week!

In this week's Watch Me Viz, I started by showing the original visualization, demonstrated how to make a non-geographical field geographical, and then I spent lots of time working through set action drill down.

I showed how to do drill down to two and three levels of dimensions in a hierarchy. Lastly, while building the dashboard, I also showed how to move fields you select in an action to the top of the view with a sorting calculation.

Enjoy!

In this week's Watch Me Viz, I covered the following charts: 

1. Line chart
2. Trellis chart
3. Slope graph
4. Connected scatter plot
5. Bar charts with comparisons
6. Diverging bar charts
7. Heatmap
8. Hex map
9. Tile map
10. Barbell chart
11. Peas in a pod chart
12. Bump Chart
13. Comet chart

In the end, I settled on the bump chart using highlighting and BANs. Other topics covered include:

1. Sorting calculations
2. Level of detail expressions
3. Rank table calculations
4. Parameters
5. Filter actions
6. Padding in dashboards
7. Cleaning tooltips
8. Divider lines in dashboards