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Tableau Brain Teaser – Coloring the Boxes in Box-and-Whisker Plots

One of the things we’ve been playing with in the Viz Talk section of the Tableau Community forums is posting brain teasers where there’s a problem that has a solution that can (theoretically) be put together in a few minutes. Here’s one from a couple of weeks ago: Headers down below on a grouped bar chart and the latest one is: Can you color the boxes in a box plot to look like this?

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These can be a fun way to learn different ways to think about working with Tableau, and if you’ve got any yourself please add them!