Set Actions in Tableau (Proportional Brushing, Asymmetric Drilldown, Color Scaling)

By: Oliver Linley

Ollie lives in Cape Town, South Africa, and is passionate about all things data - and all things Tableau! If you have a question, feel free to reach out to him directly via email.

Sets are a powerful Tableau tool that can be used in innumerable ways. One of the most useful (and eye-catching!) ways to use sets, is in combination with Dashboard or Worksheet Actions.

This combination allows us to update the values of our sets simply by interacting with our dashboards and worksheets. We can add values to our sets, assign values, or remove values, just based on our clicks.

In this video, we look at three examples of how to use set actions.

  1. Proportional Brushing

  2. Asymmetric Drilldowns

  3. Color Scaling

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