# Tableau 10: Visualisation Enhancements

> This is content from just-tim, the data-and-analytics channel by Tim Ngwena (formerly 'Tableau Tim'). Tim has 12+ years of hands-on BI experience and covers Tableau most of all, plus Power BI, Looker, Hex, SQL and data modelling, the analytics industry, and the craft of doing the job — always tool-agnostic and honest about the trade-offs.

- **Author:** Tim Ngwena (just-tim, https://just-tim.com/about)
- **Published:** 2016-08-10
- **Format:** Video · 9 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation, Tool strategy
- **Tools:** Tableau (calculated fields, filters, highlighter, maps, parameters, table calculations)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-10-visualisation-enhancements
- **Watch:** https://www.youtu.be/ZZjJHnSDfr0

I walk through the new visualisation features in Tableau 10, covering the highlighter, the refreshed parameter and filter design, the non-modal table calculation window, mark sizing control, and custom map region grouping. Each feature is demonstrated using a prepared workbook.

## Key takeaways

- The highlighter lets you emphasise a subset of data, such as a product range, while keeping the full dataset visible, making outliers and trends easier to spot than with a filter
- The non-modal table calculation window lets you edit calculated fields and adjust Compute Using simultaneously, and it visually highlights the direction and order of the calculation
- Mark sizing control with the fixed option sizes bars to match their continuous axis range, enabling Marimekko charts
- You can group states and countries into custom sales regions and have Tableau redraw map boundaries to reflect those groups
- Parameters and filters received a visual facelift with compact list options, easier styling and faster performance

## Chapters

- 0:19 The highlighter
- 2:16 Parameters and filters facelift
- 2:54 Non-modal table calculation window
- 4:51 Mark sizing control
- 6:42 Custom map regions

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-10-visualisation-enhancements

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