2019 Week 16: Was it busy?

This week we’ll be taking inspiration from a chart you are likely familiar with, Google’s “Is it busy?” chart. This visualization is probably my favorite Google feature, outside of the dinosaur run game of course, so I felt like it was time to turn it into a Workout Wednesday challenge. Can you figure out if Superstore was busy or not?

Challenge

Requirements

• Format: 800px by 450px
• Create a histogram that displays the average number of daily orders for each day of the week
• Overlay a “selected date” bar that displays the number of orders for the day in question
• Only display bar labels for the “selected date” bar
• Make sure the y-axis always extends to the highest value the “selected date” bar could be
  • If the day’s order count is the highest value it could be, label “as busy as it gets”
  • If the day’s order count is 80% or more of the highest value it could be, label “very busy”
  • If the day’s order count is 60-79% of the highest value it could be, label “pretty busy”
  • If the day’s order count is 40-59% of the highest value it could be, label “busy”
  • If the day’s order count is higher than the average day, label “busier than normal”
  • If none of the above, label “not busy”
• Provide the contextual text below histogram
• Do not use any table calculations
• Match formatting as closely as possible

Dataset

This week uses the superstore dataset for Tableau 2018.3.  You can get it here at data.world

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Track your progress

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Attribute

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