Introduction
Like a fine pinot grigio, I really enjoy a good box-and-whisker plot. There is so much good stat stuff in one place like the min/max, median, top/bottom performers, and outliers in the data set. I have found, however, that they are rarely used and some business end users find them hard to read.
This week’s challenge isn’t about how to make a box and whisker plot chart easier to read – it’s about how do we incorporate the insightful parts of the box and whisker chart into the Honda Accord of all charts: the bar chart? Meaning, we do away with arbitrarily created Top N lines in the sand and we use good old fashioned statistics to identify our top/bottom performers.
Requirements
- No sets
- No LODs except to find the max date (hint)
- No reference lines for the prior rolling period
- Parameter action for the # of rolling months. User must be able to change the number of months included in the rolling months with a single click (no type-in/slider/radio button/drop-down parameters)
- Sub-Category Color Buckets:
- Interquartile range
- At or below 25th percentile
- At or above 75th percentile
- A line should signify the previous rolling N value for sales
- ‘●’ should be added to the view to easily identify the sub-categories that have experienced sales contraction
- Same formatting
- Dashboard size: 1000 X 800
- Sheets: 2
Dataset
This week uses the superstore dataset for Tableau 2021.1. You can get it here at data.world
Attribute
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Solution
Interactive
