![]() Tableau has a default view setting for pie and donut charts, which looks like this: It’s best to keep your donut chart simple, with minimal colors and data, so that it is easier to understand. Any more than 8 colors can begin to run together, and prevent us from drawing real insights from the visualizations. Visually, as human beings, we can only perceive and remember up to 8 colors in a chart. Now that we’ve covered the basics of how to create a donut chart in Tableau, let’s go over the best practices for chart creation. Now you have created a donut chart in Tableau! Best Practices for Creating Charts We have changed our font size to 16 bold. ![]() You can also change the font size and color in this pop-up menu. In the pop-up menu, select “alignment”, and then select the center alignment both vertically and horizontally. To adjust it, we can select the label element in the AGG(1)(2) “marks menu”. Tableau will automatically place the label, and it will most likely need adjusting. From here, we can drag the field into the “label” element of the AGG(1)(2) “marks” menu. Now the “donut chart label” field will appear in the tables menu of our Tableau worksheet. Once you are done with the title, select “OK” in the bottom right of the calculated field dialogue box. Make sure you have the quotations around the title so that Tableau recognizes it as the appropriate field. ![]() ![]() This calculated field is only going to serve as a label, so we have titled ours “donut chart label.” You can then write the full title of the label in the blank area of the calculated field dialogue box. To create a label, we are going to create another calculated field. We are now going to add a label into the middle of our chart that clearly states the purpose of the chart. The last step is not required, but it adds more helpful information to our donut chart. This will make the visualization more clean and stylized to showcase your donut chart. ![]()
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