Axes, Labels, Legends, Titles, and Tooltips Video Lecture Transcript
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17:36:32 Hi! Everybody! Welcome back in this video, we're gonna learn how you can edit the axes.
17:36:37 The labels, the legends, the titles, and the tool tips we've covered some of this in other videos before, but I think it's nice to see this all in a single lecture.
17:36:46 Instead of going to the slides one by one, I think it will be best just to see how to do it in tableau, so let me go ahead.
17:36:53 We're working with the Galton Dot, Csv data.
17:36:57 So this is the one with heights of children as well as the heights of their 2 parents.
17:37:01 And we're gonna work on a scatter plot.
17:37:03 So make sure you go through. I currently have aggregate measures turned off.
17:37:07 Make sure you turn off your aggregate measures as well.
17:37:10 So I'm gonna go ahead and start by putting height as our columns.
17:37:14 I'm sorry our rows! And then putting a mother, which is the mother's height, as the columns.
17:37:20 Then I'm also gonna add sex as a color, and yours.
17:37:25 If you're starting from scratch, will have the shape.
17:37:28 Be a hollow middle. I prefer to have the filled in middle.
17:37:31 So let's go ahead and start by editing these axes, because I don't like how they're all bunched up like this.
17:37:37 So the first thing we can do is get rid of the include 0.
17:37:42 The next thing. Maybe instead of having this automatically range, we wanna set a fixed range to go from maybe 55 to maybe 72.
17:37:54 And for some reason that always that seems to oh, you know what it flipped it and I don't know why it decided so you could reverse the scale if you wanted I don't know why you would do that.
17:38:06 But I like my numbers to be increasing from left to right.
17:38:10 Okay, so you can also edit the tick marks if you'd like, by going on here and editing them I don't personally want to edit the tickets.
17:38:16 Mark. I like them the way they are. So that's gonna be it.
17:38:20 Well, that let's actually let's also change the access label.
17:38:24 So instead of mother, we can make it mothers, heights, and then inform our audience of what the units are, which is, I believe, centimeters.
17:38:31 Okay. So now, the next access will. Wanna. Edit is the vertical axis.
17:38:36 So it once again, I wanna get rid of 0 to make it less a bunched up.
17:38:40 And also, I'm gonna change the range. So I'm gonna go from 54 to 81.
17:38:48 Then I'm also gonna go through and do Childs heights, inc centimeters. Okay?
17:39:00 Alright. Another thing we can do that isn't exactly the labels.
17:39:05 You can also change the size of the plot. So like, you see, if you kind of have to be really careful, it's a little Finnicky, but as you go you can see this little arrow that allows you to either shrink horizontally, or stretch horizontally similarly I believe the
17:39:18 vertical one actually comes from the very bottom, so we could shrink it if we wanted, or we can take it back to where it was.
17:39:29 Okay. So we've got our axes. The next thing we might be interested in doing is the title.
17:39:34 So once again, you just double click. So currently, the default is just to go go with whatever we name the sheet.
17:39:42 So I'm gonna change it. So I'm gonna make it so that the it's a more.
17:39:46 Let's imagine it's a headline title.
17:39:49 So!
17:39:52 I don't know. Typically the Galton data is about how you children's height kind of reverts back to the means so we could do something like.
17:40:04 Shoulder's height.
17:40:08 Tends to revert back to the mean, okay?
17:40:17 Now we could do something like that. So we've edited the title.
17:40:20 Maybe I'll double click it again so you can see.
17:40:22 You can also edit like the size of the title you can insert fields like height. Mother.
17:40:28 Sex, only in that kind of stuff I'm just gonna leave it like this.
17:40:34 Okay. So I think we said labels. We did that. We've done title.
17:40:38 The next thing we might want to edit is the appearance of the legend.
17:40:41 So there's a little arrow next to a pencil, so we can hit this little arrow, and allow it it would allow us to change the title if we wanted, or get rid of the title.
17:40:50 So clicking, title either puts the title back on or eliminates it.
17:40:56 It would allow us to change the title. So clicking title either puts the title back on, or elimin.
17:40:56 Okay. And so I'm gonna leave it as it is, just because it's descriptive enough. I may.
17:41:03 Well, yeah, we'll leave it like that. And then the other thing you can do is you can right click or on a Mac control click, and you can if you click edit alias, it would allow you to change the font the title or the label that comes with this so we could do instead of F we could
17:41:20 do female. And then, similarly, for this, if I'm gonna do right, click or control click, I can edit alias, and then I can do mail.
17:41:30 You also notice? I don't know if we've talked about this before, when you click on the items.
17:41:35 The default for a legend is, it will highlight that particular subet of the data.
17:41:40 And then if you click, it again, it will bring all of the data.
17:41:43 So I think the last thing we need to talk about is how to edit the tool tips.
17:41:46 So I think we've done this before, but I think it's also good to review it.
17:41:50 So let's go ahead and edit the tool tip.
17:41:53 We do click the double click, the tool tip, so you'll see that maybe what we'll do first is actually show you.
17:42:01 So this is what the tool tip currently has. It has the sex, the height, and then the mother type.
17:42:09 So we could go in and double click. This, we can change, change the wording if we'd like.
17:42:16 So instead of height, we could put Childs heights, and then, after the word height, we could put centimeters.
17:42:25 We can do. Mothers height, and then centimeters.
17:42:31 When you have a thing that is in the not breadcrackets, but whatever the arrows are like, the in within the arrows.
17:42:41 Simple. I always forget what they call them that's gonna indicate it's a field.
17:42:46 So. For instance, this is the field for the sex. This is the field for the child site.
17:42:51 This is the field for the mother site. If we wanted to add additional data.
17:42:56 So let's say, we also wanted to include the father's site.
17:42:59 You need to take that and then drag it over to the detail.
17:43:02 Mark and once it's in the view, you can reference it in the tool tip so we could do fathers, heights, and I know this isn't.
17:43:12 Doesn't fit the format yet, but we will make it fit the format in a second.
17:43:19 Okay, so here, this needs to not be bolded if we wanted to match the rest, and it also needs to be.
17:43:23 I believe maybe this shadade of gray Nope, that's too light.
17:43:27 Not underlined. Maybe this shade of gray, still too light.
17:43:36 Let's go with that one. There we go. Okay.
17:43:40 So now we've got this, you can also see you can insert additional things over here.
17:43:47 You can also, let's see if there's anything else.
17:43:50 I think that's all, for now there's also you can change the font if you'd like.
17:43:55 You can change the size as well. So now we hover over.
17:44:00 You can see that in addition, like the data has been changed.
17:44:03 Let's see if there's anything else worthwhile.
17:44:05 Real. Quick. Okay. So I think that's it. Okay. So now you've seen how to edit the title.
17:44:13 How to edit the Axes, how to edit the Axes, Labels How to edit the legend title, How to edit edit the legend, text as well as what you do when you click on things of the legend, and also how to edit the tool tip so that's basically
17:44:27 all the text that's worth editing. You can now edit it so I think that's gonna be it for this video again, I will provide the link to the completed workbook on our erdos Institute tableau public profile also you can go through the slides.
17:44:46 And you should be able to find reference, but you should be able to find reference.
17:44:47 Points for all the things we did in this video maybe easier than watching the video again.
17:44:53 I hope you enjoyed this video, and I hope to see you next time.