Axis animation in Tableau Desktop and Web Authoring : New in Tableau 2021.3

0:00Hey, it's Tim here in Tableau 2021.3 Table

0:03au have added the ability to animate the

0:05axes

0:06when you're visualizing in Tableau. Now

0:08this is a subtle change, it's actually an

0:10improvement to

0:11the animation features. The animations keep

0:13getting better and better. I love the way

0:15that

0:15this is sort of picking up pace. Let me

0:17show you how it works. I'm just going to

0:19build a simple

0:20chart. For the record, I'm using Superstore

0:22sales, people always ask, you know, what

0:24dashboard,

0:24what data source are you using? I'm always

0:27using one of these two here, EU, Superstore

0:29or Superstore,

0:30the American version. Go ahead and click on

0:32that. And that will get you here into Table

0:35au desktop.

0:35And then we're just going to drag sales

0:38onto rows, profits onto columns. And then I

0:40'm going to bring

0:41category onto color and then product name

0:43onto detail. What I've done there is I've

0:45built a

0:46scatterplot very quickly, I've got profit

0:48on columns, sales and rows. And by putting

0:50category

0:51on color, we get the different colors on

0:53the scatterplot and product name on detail

0:55gives us

0:55the level of detail. Essentially, each dot

0:58here represents a product. If I wanted to

1:00go down one

1:01additional level, I could add something

1:02else to break that down. But in this

1:04particular case,

1:05I'm going to leave this as is. Now in order

1:07to show you this, I actually need to make

1:09sure a couple of

1:10things are happening. Now, if you're using

1:12an older version of Tableau, you might not

1:15see this

1:15because for you, the animations are going

1:18to be disabled. So they essentially up

1:20until the previous

1:21version of Tableau, I'll put a link to that

1:23video here up until that version,

1:24essentially,

1:25animations were not on by default. So you

1:28can see here, for me, they're on by default

1:30for you,

1:31they might be off. So if they're off, you

1:33can just come to this option and toggle it

1:35on, go to

1:36format toggle it on, and you're going to be

1:37good once you've gone into the animations

1:39options that

1:40you can obviously change these presets if

1:42you wanted to be slow or fast. I'm going to

1:43set this

1:44to slow so we can see this effect happen a

1:46little bit better. And now we're pretty

1:48much good to go.

1:49The last thing I need to do is to put a

1:50filter on here to see it work. So I'm going

1:52to right click

1:52on category and select show filter. What

1:55that actually does when I do that very

1:56quickly is it

1:57automatically puts the category onto the

2:00filter Spain, and then enables the filter

2:02menu on the

2:02right hand side. So that's all done really,

2:04really quickly in one go. And now we can

2:06see the effects.

2:07If I'm going to deselect office supplies,

2:09you can see here that I've set it to slow.

2:10So you have

2:11like an accentuated animation here. And you

2:14can see the axis is animating here at the

2:16bottom. If

2:16you're not sure where I'm looking, the axis

2:19is this one, this is the one that's

2:20changing,

2:21we're not changing too many values here on

2:23this axis. So the one to really pay

2:25attention to is

2:26going to be this bottom one here. So let's

2:28have a look at that again. Let's deselect

2:30office supplies,

2:31and then reselect it. And you can see that

2:33that's changing. Now the reason this is

2:36good is because

2:36essentially in the past, sometimes you

2:39change a filter in your dashboard, and the

2:42axis just flips

2:43instantaneously. Let's go and disable the

2:45animation. So you can see what that

2:47actually looks

2:47like. So let's go to off. And let's go back

2:50. And now let's try the same thing again,

2:52you see the

2:52axis just flips. And actually, what happens

2:55is your eyes are focusing more on the dots

2:57on the screen,

2:59rather than the axis. So you're looking at

3:00the data points. And in sort of in your

3:02peripheral

3:02vision, you're not even clocking that the

3:04axis is changing. So you think something's

3:06happened to

3:07your data when in fact, no, the axis has

3:08changed. And actually, you should be you

3:10could be looking

3:10at a different context altogether. So that

3:12's why this feature is really, really good.

3:14It makes it

3:14easier for people to see and understand

3:16what's going on. And I think it's good for

3:18data viz best

3:19practice just to have this on because it's

3:21now communicating something it's

3:23communicating change,

3:24not just through the chart, but through the

3:26axis. That's pretty much it. There's not

3:28much more to

3:28say on that. If you haven't done so ready,

3:31check out the other videos on 2021.3 over

3:34on Tableau Tim

3:34calm, I've got a whole playlist there that

3:36you can check out all these features I'm

3:38adding to it over

3:39time, this is going to be a slightly

3:40different way of working, I'm going to add

3:42to the playlist over

3:43the next few days. So go check those out.

3:45And hopefully enjoy some of the other

3:46videos that

3:47I've got on my channel as well. Thanks for

3:51watching. I'll catch you in the next one.

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