How To Dynamically Change the Colour of the Selected Line In Tableau

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This short tutorial is for you if you need to highlight trends, and help users engage with your line chart. Follow Data Schooler Randee Johnson as she shows you how to change the colour of the lines you want to focus on in a line chart with a click of your mouse.
📌Timestamp
00:00 Intro
00:27 Get the data
00:48 Open the data in Tableau and tutorial explanation
01:18 Build the line chart
02:52 Create the Set
04:42 Create Set Action
06:12 Make a dummy highlight field
07:16 Final formatting
🔗Links
- Get the final workbook and data: til.bi/dynamicallychangelinec...
- Get the final Tableau Workbook on Tableau Public:
til.bi/tableaupublicdynamical...
- Find the original data on the NYC Open Data Portal: data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Go...
- Randee's blog on the Order of Operations: www.thedataschool.co.uk/ghost...
- Randee got this idea from two of our older videos:
-- On Set Actions: • Set Actions in Tableau
-- On Dummy Highlighting: • How to disable Chart H...
- Connect with Randee on LinkedIn: / randee-johnson7
- Find out more about Randee on The Data School site: www.thedataschool.co.uk/blog/...
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