![]() For this right click the title area of the sheet and select “ Hide Title“. ![]() We have our first logo, but we should do some cleaning up by hiding the title, header and the axis labels as well as getting rid of the format borders. This might make your icon very small in the worksheet, so make sure to change the view from “ Standard” to “ Entire View“. In my case, the first animal icon I want to create is the Chimpanzee, so I CTRL + click the “ Animal” pill in the “ Columns” shelf and drag it to the “ Filters” card and only select “ Chimpanzee“. In order to do this, you must add a filter. For this, each icon can be in its own separate worksheet, I decided to do it that way. Once all the icons are assigned as shapes to each data item, the standalone icons can be created. Then one by one, assign each data item with the desired shape by first clicking the data point, then clicking the desired shape and click “ Apply“.In the pop-up menu, first click “ Reload Shapes” then select your shape palette (in my case I named it Animal Icons).Click on the “ Shapes” shelf under the “ Marks” card.Therefore the next step will include working with the “ Shape” type under the “ Marks” card. These icons are essentially are to be used as shapes in our Tableau project. Finding icons began with a simple Google search where I stumbled upon a library with many free icons and digital stickers for download from a site called From there, I downloaded all the animal icons that I needed and saved them to a folder.Īfter placing all my icons into a folder, then I move that folder into the “ Shapes” folder found in “ My Tableau Repository“. In this case, I needed an icon for each animal present in the dataset. ![]() Without further ado, we begin with the first step: Obtaining and Importing the Icons into TableauĪfter loading the dataset, you will need to decide for what category you need icons for. ![]() For this visualization, I worked with a dataset that included the percentages of females and males that have participated in the study who believe whether if they could beat a given animal or not in an unarmed fight. In this blog post, I will be going through how to create interactive icons that can be used in your Tableau dashboards by going through an example dashboard I have posted in my Tableau Public profile which can be found here. In addition, they add a great deal for navigation as well as adding character to your design. It is also a great tool to pass language barriers that can arise with plain text. They are easy to understand graphics that grabs the user’s attention immediately due to their simplistic visual nature. Using icons are considered to be quite a beneficial tool for web design. ![]()
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