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Tableau Cookbook for Experienced Professionals
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Interactivity is one of the key differentiators of modern data visualizations, graphs, and dashboards, allowing users to engage with the data and find answers to their questions.
When we think about interactivity, filtering is most commonly what comes to our minds. But Tableau has different interactivity types for different use cases, allowing us to develop much more advanced tools, closer to analytical apps, to solve more complex scenarios, adding more value to our analysis and answering more advanced questions.
In Tableau, the different types of interactions between sheets or dashboards are called actions. Currently, there are six types of actions – Filter, Highlight, Go to URL, Go to Sheet, Change Parameter, and Change Set Values – and understanding when to use them and how to have full control of each one will open a new world of possibilities in our visualizations. This is especially true for parameter actions (Change Parameter...