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Tableau 10 Business Intelligence Cookbook

You're reading from   Tableau 10 Business Intelligence Cookbook Create powerful, effective visualizations with Tableau 10

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786465634
Length 476 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Donabel Santos Donabel Santos
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Basic Charts FREE CHAPTER 2. Advanced Charts 3. Interactivity 4. Dashboards and Story Points 5. Maps and Geospatial Visualization 6. Analytics 7. Data Preparation A. Calculated Fields Primer B. Resources Index

Adding a reference band


A reference band creates a banded or shaded area in a chart, and can show if other points fall within a range or interest or not.

In this recipe, will highlight the time range when water quality complaints are filed using a reference band:

Getting ready

To follow this recipe, open B05527_06 – STARTER.twbx. Use the worksheet called Reference Band and connect to the NYC Water Quality Complaints data source:

How to do it...

The following are the steps to create the time series graph with reference band in this recipe:

  1. From Dimensions, right-click and drag Created Date DT to Columns and select Discrete Hour:

  2. Right-click on the HOUR(Created Date DT) field in Columns and select Continuous.

  3. Right-click on the HOUR(Created Date DT) field in Columns, and select Format. On the side bar, under Scale, choose 12-Hour format for Dates:

  4. Right-click on the Created Date DT axis to edit axis. Change the axis title to # Complaints.

  5. From Measures, drag Number of Records to Rows.

  6. Edit the Number...

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