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1) With a line chart, by placing Year(Order Date) on the Color shelf and Month(Date) on the columns, you can easily compare multiple years on the same pane of the graph. Just use Running Totals from the Quick Table Calculation dialog.
2) If this were real-world data, you would likely want to keep data through today; otherwise, prior years would likely be much higher since they are based on a full month while this year’s latest month is partially complete, unless it is the last day of the month!
3) By creating a calculated field that can check if the month/day is before today’s month/day and placing it on the filter shelf and selecting True, you can keep year-to-date data
Balancing analysis of multiple years by filtering through the same month/day as today
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Wimbledon winners longevity, by years since 1st win, small form-factor
All four of the Wimbledon examples on this website were created in less than two hours using Tableau- this includes three distinct perspectives on the Wimbledon winners data and two of them in a compact design for use on the Guardian web site.
Wimbledon winners by ranking (seed) and gender, small form-factor
All four of the Wimbledon examples on this website were created in less than two hours using Tableau- this includes three distinct perspectives on the Wimbledon winners data and two of them in a compact design for use on the Guardian web site.
Wimbledon winners dashboard- small form-factor dashboard example
This example was also featured on The Guardian DataBlog, the third most popular online newspaper in the world. All four of the Wimbledon examples on this website were created in less than two hours using Tableau- this includes three distinct perspectives on the Wimbledon winners data and two of them in a compact design for use on the Guardian web site.
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