Adding Labels To Your Visualizations

Quick reference

• 00:04 Okay in this video, I want to show you how to add labels to your charts.
• 00:07 So let's create a pie chart real quick, click on this, and
• 00:11 let me resize this real quick.
• 00:13 There we go there and let's resize there, so this is great.
• 00:17 It's a nice little pie chart but, unless we hover over each thing,
• 00:19 we don't really know what's going on here.
• 00:21 So, let's say we want to add labels, let's say we want to add the actual breed as
• 00:25 labels for each of the little slices in the pie chart, so how do we do that?
• 00:29 Well, notice over here in our marks card, and we going to talk about the marks
• 00:32 card in greater detail going forward, but you could see there's some boxes here,
• 00:36 color, size, label, angle, tooltip, and detail.
• 00:38 So each of these allow us to make customizations to our visualization.
• 00:44 So, what we can do is just grab one of these things and drag it to whichever one
• 00:48 of these boxes we want to mess around with, in this case label.
• 00:51 Now we don't want to just grab this and drag it and drop it because if we did,
• 00:54 that's moving it.
• 00:55 And we don't want to move it, we don't want to move the pill,
• 00:59 we want to sort of make a copy of it and drag that copy in because we want
• 01:03 the breed to stay on there, we just want to also add the breed as a label.
• 01:07 So to do that we hold down the control button on our keyboard while we're
• 01:10 dragging and dropping.
• 01:11 If you're on a Mac computer, I think it's the command button,
• 01:14 not the control button because Macs don't have control buttons.
• 01:17 But go ahead and if you're on Windows, click and hold the control button down,
• 01:21 you can't tell but I'm doing it right now.
• 01:23 And then, click your mouse button,
• 01:25 hold the mouse button down to select the thing that you want to drag.
• 01:29 And then let's just drag this over and you'll notice when I hover over the label,
• 01:33 the little box turns dark, that's what you want to see.
• 01:37 So make sure you see that dark color pop up, and then just let go your button, and
• 01:41 when you do boom, your labels pop up.
• 01:43 Now we've got like I don't know a couple thousand different dog breeds so
• 01:49 it's just grabbing the biggest ones, and it's still not all that useful.
• 01:54 This one says mixed, but if you had less data if you had less slices which we'll
• 01:58 show you how to filter that probably in the next couple of videos,
• 02:02 then this will help a lot and these labels will become super useful.
• 02:06 So that's how you do that very easy, if we also wanted the count,
• 02:10 we could do the same thing, grab, hold down the control button or
• 02:15 command if you're on a Mac, drag this up here and boom.
• 02:18 Now the count for each of these on there, so that's kind of cool.
• 02:21 Let me just go ahead and undo that, and undo that as well, so
• 02:24 let's play around with this.
• 02:26 Let's head over to our, for instance, the tree map,
• 02:29 now this is a cool one, it already has, the dog breeds, right?
• 02:33 It's already got the label, but maybe we want to count for each one so,
• 02:37 I'm going to hold down my control button, grab this, bring it up to labels and boom,
• 02:41 now we have counts.
• 02:42 Now this is super useful, right?
• 02:44 Because we could see, without having to hover, over each box, what the count is.
• 02:49 And you see down here it stops doing it because the boxes become so
• 02:52 small, it just can't fit all that stuff in there.
• 02:55 But for the bigger ones you could see at a glance are pitbull terriers,
• 03:00 2,500, Chihuahuas, 2,500 and change.
• 03:04 Mixed is the biggest one labs, next lab mix, after that, German shepherd,
• 03:08 golden retrievers, yorkshire terriers 1,990.
• 03:12 Very cool, so just that easy to add labels to your visualizations.
• 03:15 Remember, hold down the control key when you're doing this otherwise this can get
• 03:20 messed up.
• 03:21 So if I undo this and now let's say I grab this and
• 03:24 bring it over here, you can see it's all messed up now.
• 03:27 So that's what happens when you don't hold the control key down.
• 03:31 So just remember, hold the control key command if you're on a Mac,
• 03:34 make sure it's hovered over this.
• 03:36 Now these are all crammed together so you really have to pay attention when you're
• 03:39 hovering over one that it highlights.
• 03:41 And you can see a highlighting by turning dark when you're mostly over it, and
• 03:46 just let off your mouse button, boom, it pops right on there, and very cool.
• 03:50 So that's labels, and you could see we're using the count here for
• 03:54 the label, which makes sense in this situation.
• 03:56 We might want to know instead, the percentage instead of just the count,
• 04:00 we'll look at how to do that in the next video.

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