Adding Multiple Fields Using 'Show Me'

Quick reference

• 00:04 Today in this video,
• 00:05 I want to show you how to add multiple fields using the Show Me tab.
• 00:08 So up until now, we've been creating all our visualizations by just grabbing
• 00:12 a pill, bringing it over, dropping into these shelves here.
• 00:15 I can do it like this.
• 00:16 And we've talked about adding multiple fields by just grabbing multiple pills and
• 00:20 dragging them over and dropping them.
• 00:22 And that will work, but sometimes you're just kind of in a hurry and
• 00:25 there's another way you can do it that can be a little faster.
• 00:28 And that is to just select these pills over here all at once, and then just come
• 00:32 over here to the Show Me and then pick whatever graph or chart that you want.
• 00:37 So to do that, we could for instance, grab Breed.
• 00:39 Now, I'm just going to click on it one time with my mouse button here, and
• 00:43 you can see that it highlights.
• 00:44 Now if I click something else like Color,
• 00:47 that highlights and then the first one is unhighlighted.
• 00:52 So we can only sort of select one at a time.
• 00:55 But if you hold down your Ctrl key, Cmd if you're on a Mac, and
• 00:58 then select more than one, you can see they both become selected.
• 01:02 And then we can grab whichever ones we want.
• 01:04 We can select them all the while holding down the Ctrl key.
• 01:07 And then we can come down here and pick our measure.
• 01:09 Again, continuing to hold the Ctrl key, and then boom it highlights.
• 01:13 Now if you accidentally hit the Shift key, for instance, if I came down here and
• 01:17 did this, it's going to select all of the ones in between.
• 01:20 So if you want to do them all at once, you could select this one and
• 01:23 then hold down the Shift key.
• 01:24 And then come down to the last one, you can see they highlight them all.
• 01:27 I don't recommend that you do that.
• 01:28 We don't want to do that in this case.
• 01:30 Same thing if we select two of them here, and then come down and
• 01:33 accidentally hit the Shift key, it's going to grab all of them in between.
• 01:36 So you don't want to do that, be sure to just hold down the Ctrl button.
• 01:39 That's for Windows users or on a Mac, it's the Cmd button, I believe.
• 01:43 And so we can just do this.
• 01:46 Select the things that we want, and then, come over to Show Me and click it and
• 01:49 then you could just select whichever chart that you want.
• 01:52 So if we wanted this guy right here, boom, you can see it sort of populates
• 01:57 the pills onto the shelves that this specific chart or graph requires.
• 02:03 If we highlight this one instead, if you click that, and you can see boom,
• 02:06 they're all listed here.
• 02:07 If we wanted to packed bubbles, we could do it like that, and just that easy.
• 02:11 Now, you may be curious why some of these charts and graphs are available to us.
• 02:17 You can see they're sort of full color.
• 02:20 The other ones are sort of grayed out.
• 02:22 And we sort of touched on this, but
• 02:23 I haven't really spent a lot of time talking about it.
• 02:25 I might as well mention it now.
• 02:26 If you actually hover over each one of these, down here at the bottom and
• 02:30 this section right here, you can see it tells you the requirements for
• 02:34 that particular graph.
• 02:36 So for instance, this bar chart, it requires zero or more dimensions and
• 02:40 one or more measures.
• 02:42 You see right down here, that's what it says.
• 02:44 I can't move the mouse because, there we go, right?
• 02:47 So if you want packed bubbles, you can see for packed bubbles,
• 02:51 you need one or more dimensions and one or two measures.
• 02:56 For instance, line charts, you need one date, zero or more dimensions, and
• 03:01 one or more measures.
• 03:02 We don't have a date in this particular instance, so the line chart won't show up.
• 03:08 If we were to go ahead and clear this whole thing and start over again and
• 03:13 grab a Valid Date and measure, you can see now the line charts are available to us.
• 03:19 Because one of the requirements for a line chart is a valid date.
• 03:23 And you see now we've selected dates.
• 03:24 Now, the line charts are available to us.
• 03:26 So we'll get into line charts and things like that a little bit later.
• 03:29 So that's another way to sort of create visualizations using the Show Me instead
• 03:33 of dragging and dropping things.
• 03:34 That's a way to use more than one dimension or measure,
• 03:39 hold down the Ctrl button, and then click your Show Me.
• 03:44 Click, boom, there you go, and pretty cool.
• 03:46 So that's all for this video.
• 03:47 In the next video, we'll look at creating custom measures.

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