This chapter shows you how to make a gauge with any image. I learned this trick from Tableau Zen Master Lindsey Poulter in her visualization, Best States to Raise Children. Downloading Tableau public visualizations and reverse engineering them is one of the best ways to pick up new techniques.
In the visualization, Lindsey draws an arrow over a custom sequential color palette to communicate performance across five different categories. In this tutorial, I show you how to make a gauge out of a custom background image for a company that is interested in viewing individual responses to a Net Promoter Score (NPS) survey. The following approach is useful any time you want to customize a gauge with an image of your choosing.
How to Customize Tableau Gauges Using Images
Here is an example of a gauge built with a custom background showing a response to an NPS survey with rounded shapes colored to indicate whether the respondent is a Detractor (responded between 0 and 6), Passive (responded 7 or 8), or a Promoter (responded 9 or 10).
Typically, NPS scores are calculated by taking the percentage of Detractors and subtracting that number by the percentage of Promoters, but for this illustration, ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month, and much more.
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
