I presented Dashboard Design Tips: Contextual Legends at the Financial Services Tableau User Group on 8 March 2025 (Wed). Here are the open learning resources for the presentation, including the YouTube video recording (TBD), demo workbook, slide deck, and many more. May these resources help you create dashboards with more functions!
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Learning Resources
- YouTube video recording
- Demo workbook (Tableau Public, downloadable)
- Example of a “usual” color legend
- Slide deck (Figma)
Creative Use Cases from Me
- Talk Data Podcast to Me
Rounded parameter legend in a dark mode dashboard - US Higher Education Institutes with Data Analytics Program
Bars indicating overall distributions while yellow dots revealing information on the selected institute
Extra Tips on Color Palette
- Lisa Charlotte Muth’s excellent resources on the use of color in DataViz
Chart Chat 51 (Video) | Datawrapper Blogs (Articles) - Multi-hue sequential & diverging color palettes
Introduction to the viridis color palette (why they are better than rainbowscale) | Color Palettes for Tableau by Jacob Olusufka | Preference Text File Curated by Jacob
Thank You
- Discover’s Credit BI team for adopting the presented practice, specifically Naman Misraraj for brainstorming the presented materials
- Oishiq Nandy for the presentation invitation
- Jacob Olusufka for the curated Preference file on the multi-hue color palette, which I have used in the demo workbook and many other vizzes
- Countless DataFam members for inspiring the legend design and use cases