Tableau Heatmap: Move Row Labels to the Bottom of the Chart

This blog is based on Andrew Ball's blog about Moving table headers to the bottom (Making a table look like a chart), adjusted for heatmaps. You can check out the original blog here.

This is a trick to move the field labels on rows to the bottom of the chart. The objective is shown in the screenshot below.

Goal outcome

Step 1: Add AVG(1) calculation to Rows

Step 2: Edit AVG(1) Axis, Set Range to 0 and 1

Right click on AVG(1) highlighted in blue, click Edit Axis

Step 2: Hide headers of AVG(1)

Click on the AVG(1) pill and untick Show Header

Step 3: Max out the size of the bars

Change the mark type to a bar and max out the size

Step 4: Remove Zero Lines on Rows

Right click on a tile and select Format

The final output should look like this, with borders on the bars to make each tile distinguishable.

Author:
Tomo Mensendiek
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