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Tableau Help: Visual Best Practices
Documents chart customization, visual design workflow, labels, color, titles, tooltips, and keeping views understandable for the audience.
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Pattern Decisions This Source Supports
| Pattern | Supported decision | Required contract | Claim note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Data visualization | Choose Data visualization when the user's primary task is seeing a pattern, relationship, trend, distribution, ranking, magnitude, or anomaly. | Each visible mark is derived from the current dataset, filter scope, aggregation, and scale; visual marks and table values must agree. | Tableau documents best practices for visual design, labels, color, and tooltips. |
Comparisons supported by this source
- Data visualization vs table vs map view vs activity log
Tableau documents visual best practices for customization, labels, color, and tooltips.
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