Creating more visualizations

Let's create some additional visualizations:

  1. Click a blank area on the canvas to ensure that no visuals are selected.
  2. Drag the Date column onto the canvas.
  3. Switch the visual type to be a slicer. Note that this slicer looks very different! Because the Date column has a data type of date, this slicer defaults to a Between date slicer.
  1. Hover your mouse over this visual and note that a tiny Chevron icon appears in the upper-right corner of the visual:

Figure 14: Slicer header options
  1. Click this Chevron and observe that the different modes for this slicer are the default, Between, as well as Before, After, List ...

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