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Create legends for each measure in a visualization

Create legends for each measure in a visualization - Tableau Tutorial

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Create legends for each measure in a visualization

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- [Instructor] Prior to Tableau 10.2, if you created a color-based legend for values in a table in Tableau, then the program would apply a single color to all values, and that can be difficult if you had values that varied significantly from each other. Starting with Tableau 10.2, you can create legends with different colors for each of the data series within your set. I'll demonstrate how to create multicolored legends. My sample file is the Legends workbook. I have monthly data for the average daily rate, number of guests, and number of rooms, or occupancy, for a hotel that I run. And what I'd like to do is to use color to identify the high and low values within each of my three data series. To do that I will drag Measure Values from the Marks card up to Color, and I get a single legend. I also want to show the labels for that data. So I will click the Label button and check Show mark labels, and that displays both the color and the labels. And you can see how Guests, which has…

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