From the course: Tableau 10 for Data Scientists
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Colors - Tableau Tutorial
From the course: Tableau 10 for Data Scientists
Colors
- [Instructor] Color in Tableau is a fantastic way of making your dashboard look really attractive. But it can also be used to encode data. Now the way that Tableau does this depends on whether we're using a discreet or a continuous measure. That is, a green or blue pill. Let's take a look and see how Tableau treats each one of these. To start with, I'm gonna build a simple bar chart. So we'll put region on our rows and we'll put sales on our column. Now to add a color, all we have to do is drag a field onto the color shelf on the marks card. So in this case, let's take region. Now region is a discreet dimension. It has has four values. So Tableau interprets this and creates a palette that has four colors. And assigns the default color palette to it. If we don't like those colors, we can click on the color shelf. We go to edit colors. And we can manually change any of the colors by clickin' on one and clickin' on the color. If we want to, from the drop down here, we can select some of…
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