From the course: Tableau 2024.1: Essential Training
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Annotate a visualization - Tableau Tutorial
From the course: Tableau 2024.1: Essential Training
Annotate a visualization
Charts are terrific at summarizing data visually, but there will be times when you want to add a comment to a chart to explain something not communicated directly by the raw data, or to ask a question. In this movie, I will show you how to add an annotation to a Tableau visualization. My sample file is 10_01_Annotation, and you can find it in the Chapter_10 folder of the exercise Files collection. In this workbook I have a visualization. It's a column chart or vertical bar graph showing sales by employee title. And the question that I want to ask is whether it's necessary to have each of the employee titles displayed with a separate color, or if instead we could just make them all the same color. So I will add an annotation asking that question. I'll go to any blank area on the chart, so I'm not seeing a tooltip at this point. If I move over and play title, it looks like that selected and same here. So I'll just go onto a blank part of the chart area and right click. Then in the…
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