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New Years; New ‘Goals:keeping up with the 'side gig'

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I am trying to get back into Tableau and keep my skills fresh while doing some other things with my career and job. So, getting back into Tableau had been fun, albeit a little time consuming. My goal is to publish every other week and absorb the MM webinars weekly.   This will give me a little breathing room for work while still keeping in the field.   I have been keeping up with the weeks but this is my first lessons learned post.  I hope to go back to the previous weeks and talk through lessons learned as time permits.  Week1 was a big struggle for me but a very fun one so stay tuned! MM_W5 , I really wanted to learn how to do a negative bar chart. This is in essence displaying a set of data in bar but show it against a colored background to help the reader understand the data visually against 100%.   I believe this has a stronger impact than just a standard bar chart.   Lessons Learned: Dual Axis; To do this type of chart you need to do a dual axis as 1 wi