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Arshad Khan, Jumpstart Tableau, 10.1007/978-1-4842-1934-8_32

32. Axis Formatting

Arshad Khan1 

(1)Fremont, California, USA

Objective: This exercise demonstrates how to format the chart axes and display labels

Figure 32-1 displays the sum of profits vs. the average shipping cost as a scatter plot. On the Marks card, Order Priority has been added to the Color shelf, while Market has been added to Shape.

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Figure 32-1. Visualization to be formatted and labeled

  • Click the vertical axis, as shown in Figure 32-1, which leads to the display shown in Figure 32-2, where the axis is highlighted

    Figure 32-2. Axis highlighted

  • Right-click the axis, ...

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