The third day was focused on Cricket Data. We were given the players from the ICC World Cup 2019, and told to take their data and make it into a new vis.
In my case, I decided to go with not one, but two visualizations; one that displayed a map of the countries competing, and one that displayed a breakdown of the team’s skills. By clicking on a country, the map would zoom in on that screen, revealing stats for that specific player.
To do this on just two pages required two Dashboard actions working in tandem. The first is a “Go To Sheet” action. This action moves the user’s view to a different dashboard or worksheet when they click on the mark on a sheet, generally regardless of the mark. The second, is slightly more complicated – a Parameter action.
Parameter Actions
To set up a Parameter Action, you first (obviously) need a parameter.
For something like this, any kind of String parameter would technically work, but the best way to do it is to right click the field you’ll be matching the parameter filter to and select “Create Parameter”. Doing so will automatically create a new parameter with all the potential results from the field you selected. If you need to add an “All” or “None” option, you can do it once you’ve built the parameter.
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