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Visually group elements with borders

Visually group elements with borders - Tableau Tutorial

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Visually group elements with borders

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- [Instructor] Borders are a nice simple way of grouping elements together on a dashboard to allow you to arrange things in a slightly more logical way. One thing they're quite good for doing is collating charts together that are related to make it slightly easier to understand what's going on with dashboard. So let's look at this one as an example. So I've got a map and a heat map, both looking at profits, and they're color coded to look at the profits, and at the bottom I've got a bar chart showing sales per segment and category and a timeline also showing sales. Now this is all coming from the same underlying dataset, but the top two are looking at the profit. The bottom two are looking at the sales. So they are looking at the same data from two different directions. Now, what I want to make kind of really obvious that they are completely separate. So ideally what I'd like to do is draw a border around those two sections to show that they are separate, even though they're looking…

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