Highlight vs Filter Actions in Tableau can completely change how users interact with your dashboards. In this tutorial, you’ll learn the difference between highlight actions and filter actions, when to use each one, and how to build both into a Tableau dashboard from start to finish.

Using a practical end-to-end example, we’ll create charts, assemble them into a dashboard, and add interactive actions that improve usability and analysis. By the end, you’ll understand how highlight actions guide attention, how filter actions change the view, and how to use both together to create more effective Tableau dashboards.

Whether you’re new to Tableau dashboard actions or looking to sharpen your skills, this walkthrough will help you build more interactive and user-friendly dashboards with confidence.

Learn how to use Tableau and created impressive dashboards. 

Tableau is easy to use, but it can seem quite complex and confusing at first. The best way for you to learn Tableau is to download the files from the description of this video and follow along with me.  

By the end of the video, you will have a much better understanding of Tableau and be confident that you can build dashboards on your own. 

I'll take you step-by-step and show you how to create, publish and share your first interactive Tableau dashboard.

I'll cover:

1. Tableau's welcome screen
2. Connecting to data
3. Making visuals
4. Creating a dashboard
5. Adding interactivity
6. Publishing to Tableau Server
7. Sharing with others

By the end of the video, you'll have created your first interactive Tableau dashboard which you can publish to the web or to your company's Tableau Server. I'll also show you how you can share your Tableau dashboard with others.

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Floating bar charts are similar to Gantt bar charts, except they don't use dates or duration for the length of the bar. In this video, I show you how to use floating bar charts for comparing metrics.

Example 1 - Comparing mental health syndromes between women and men

Example 2 - Comparing year over year sales

Data Sources:

1. Mental Health Symptoms - https://data.world/makeovermonday/2020w27-comparing-common-mental-disorder-by-sex
2. Superstore 2020.3 - https://data.world/vizwiz/superstore-20203

#MakeoverMonday week 44 is another #Viz5 initiative. The topic this week is access to the internet and mobile phones by gender and country.

First, sorry about the video cutting out at the very end. My mistake.

In this video, I first review the initial visualization and talk about what works and what does. In the end, I went with a quadrant chart, which is a scatter plot with broken up into four quadrants. The viz focuses on only two of the quadrants to highlight the significant difference in the number of countries where women have more access to men for both technologies vs. the opposite.

I showed several methods for visualizing the data:

1. Side-by-Side Bar
2. Bar in bar
3. Bar Graph vs. Reference Line
4. Barbell
5. Peas in a pod
6. Floating bar chart
7. Slope graph (terrible choice)
8. Ranked slope graph (even worse choice)
9. Histograms
10. Box plot
11. Scatter plot

Resources:

1. Final workbook - LINK
2. Data set - https://data.world/makeovermonday/2020w44
3. Country and region information (Be careful joining this as some country names don't match. You'll want to using data blending and alias the country names to match.) - https://data.world/vizwiz/country-region-codes
4. Chart Guide - https://chart.guide/
5. Interactive chart chooser - https://depictdatastudio.com/charts/