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Display different color legends per measure

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Display different color legends per measure

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- [Instructor] A new feature in 10.2 is the ability to have a Legend for each individual Measure in your Dashboard. To see this in action we're going to look at the Superstore Sales Data. But first of all let's just build a very simple highlight table. We'll use the Sub-Category and we'll add all of the Measures in this dataset. So that's a very simple cross-tab but it's hard to see what's going on. We want to see the maximum and the minimum values and anything interesting that's going on so to do that we could turn that into a highlight table. So first we'll add Measure Values to Color and that colors the Text but we want it to stand out a little bit more so we change it from Automatic to Square. Now, notice the coloring that's being used so Tableau's identified that we have some negative Values and some positive Values so it suggested using a diverging Color palette. Over on the right-hand side we have one single Legend for our Color and that ranges from -17,000 to +330,000 with the…

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