Tableau Highlight Table helps you to compare the categorical data using colors. In this article, we will show you how to Create a Highlight Table with an example. For the demo, we use the World Indicators Data Source.
Highlight Table in Tableau Example
To create a Tableau Highlight Table, First, Drag and Drop the Country field from Dimension Region to Rows Shelf. Once you drag them, a Text Label will generate, as shown below.
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Next, Drag and Drop the Year from the Dimensions Region to Tableau Columns Shelf. Refer to Text Label.
Next, drag and drop the Mobile Phone Usage field from the Measures Region to the Color field in the Marks Shelf. From the below screenshot, you can see the Tableau Highlight table.
Let me change the Color adjustment field position
Change the Colors of a Highlight Table in Tableau
The above screenshot shows the Tableau Highlight table with default colors. However, you have the option to change the default colors.
To do so, click the drop-down menu beside the SUM(Mobile Phone Users) color legend, or right-click on the Color bar. Both of them will open the below-shown context menu. From that, please select the Edit Colors… option.
Selecting the Edit option opens the following window. As you can see, it has selected the Automatic pallet as the color schema.
Click the drop-down arrow under the Palette and select the color as per your requirement. For now, we are choosing Red-Green-Gold Diverging.
You can also specify the Start Point, End Point, and Center by clicking the Advanced button.
Now you can see the Tableau Highlight table with different color combinations. Though, it looks good to let me Exclude the years from 2000 to 2005 because we don’t have much data to display over that period.
We applied a filter on the year filed. Please refer to the filter concept to understand the same.
Highlighting any block will show you the information at that particular point.
How to Change the Block size of a Table?
We can adjust the size instead of filling the Tableau Highlight table complete block with colors. To do so, drag the Total Population from Measures Region to Size field in a Marks Shelf. As you can see, the size of each block is displayed based on the population.
Let me increase the Size.
Selecting any specific block will show you the information at that particular point.
Placing the Mobile Phone Usage Measure in the Text label will convert this into a Normal Table along with the colors.
Create a Tableau Highlight Table using Show Me
The Show Me window show you the available charts you can make using the Measures and Dimension fields. Let me select the Highlight Table.
Now you can see the Highlight Table created by Show Me.
