Mark AnnotationWhat is Mark Annotation?
There are various reasons you would like to annotate a mark on your visualization. Maybe you have an outlier or an event not directly captured by figures that have an important influence on your data. Proving this information directly in the dashboard means that your visualization contains all the relevant information for its users. Ideally, you want your information associated with the exact data point, ensuring it can always be displayed in context.
Challenges
Tableau provides Tooltips, which is a great feature, but numbers sometimes don’t tell the whole story and being able to enrich it with qualitative data is key to understanding and interpreting the results. As with any manual process, you end up relying on third-party tools which take users out of the analytical flow and make it harder to manage the process and get immediate feedback.
How can Write-Back help you
Write-Back enables you to associate information with any mark directly from your dashboard with ease. You can even specify different types of fields, each with its own purpose, and the best of all is that it is all stored immediately on your database. Using this information on a data source means you can display it anywhere, including creating Tooltips that highlight events.
Mark annotation enables you to provide additional context to any visualisation to highlight specific events that might not be captured directly by measures. With Write-Back, you can easily do it straight from the dashboard, making it really easy.
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Mark Annotation
What is Mark Annotation?
There are various reasons you would like to annotate a mark on your visualization. Maybe you have an outlier or an event not directly captured by figures that have an important influence on your data. Proving this information directly in the dashboard means that your visualization contains all the relevant information for its users. Ideally, you want your information associated with the exact data point, ensuring it can always be displayed in context.
Challenges
Tableau provides Tooltips, which is a great feature, but numbers sometimes don’t tell the whole story and being able to enrich it with qualitative data is key to understanding and interpreting the results. As with any manual process, you end up relying on third-party tools which take users out of the analytical flow and make it harder to manage the process and get immediate feedback.
How can Write-Back help you
Write-Back enables you to associate information with any mark directly from your dashboard with ease. You can even specify different types of fields, each with its own purpose, and the best of all is that it is all stored immediately on your database. Using this information on a data source means you can display it anywhere, including creating Tooltips that highlight events.
Mark annotation enables you to provide additional context to any visualisation to highlight specific events that might not be captured directly by measures. With Write-Back, you can easily do it straight from the dashboard, making it really easy.