Tooltips

Tooltips on visualizations are a window to added context. They help users navigate further into the data and capture more insight. Tooltips appear by default on visualizations when hovering over a data point. However, the default model is not organized in a way that tells a story.

Your current dashboard will have tooltips that look something like this:

Figure 3.24 – Default tooltips

The default tooltips are okay, but the stakeholders want a way to make the information more narrative and useful. Tooltips can be edited in many ways. Besides being able to add dynamic results of dimensions, measures, or parameters when bringing in those fields, there are a host of text edits that can be made.

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