Darragh Murray: Fun with sets - Highlighting/filtering data using a shared attribute of a selected value in Tableau

"Have you ever wanted to be able to filter or highlight records in a Tableau visualisation that share a common attribute? For example, say you had a visualisation and a filter that listed animals. You select ‘kangaroo’, and the visualisation would filter for ‘kangaroo’ and all other marsupials – animals that share the same infraclass as the chosen ‘kangaroo’.

This post shows you how to achieve dynamic filtering or visualisation based on shared attributes using a straightforward set and a few calculated fields. Let me explain in more detail using one of Tableau’s default datasets, World Indicators."

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