#WOW2017 | 12 | Can you highlight a treemap?

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Introduction

EDITOR’S NOTE: This challenge was originally published on Emma Whyte’s Tableau blog which no longer exists. This challenge is republished here with the author’s permissions
 

This week’s Workout Wednesday is inspired by Charlie who posted a question on how to achieve a highlighted treemap to The Information Lab Centre of Excellence:

Challenge accepted! I managed to crack it fairly swiftly. However if you’ve never had to do something like this before I think it’s going to be pretty tricky. If you have tried to do this before and think you know how it’s done, I’m pretty sure that Tableau’s treemap logic is going to give you a few obstacles.

 
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Requirements

  • The treemap should be segmented by Product Category and Product Sub-Category with Sales as the size of each part.
  • The Sales value should also colour each segment of the treemap as a gradient (I’ve used blue).
  • Additionally, you should be able to highlight a segment of the treemap with a different colour (I’ve used orange). The part highlighted should be able to be changed by the end user.

Dataset

This week uses an adapted Superstore data set. You can find it here on Data.World

Attribute

When you publish your solution on Tableau Public make sure to take the time and include a link to the original inspiration.  Also include the hashtag #WOW2023 in your description to make it searchable!

Share

After you finish your workout, share on Twitter and/or LinkedIn using the hashtag #WOW2023 @Tableau and tag @WorkoutWednsday @EmmaWhyte & @vizwizbi

 

Solution

Interactive

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