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Miguel_Myers
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2 years ago
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Epic idea: Color assignment for categories

Data visualization often suffers from unclear and ineffective color assignments, hindering the comprehension of data. An innovative idea would be to develop an infrastructure that automatically assigns colors based on the nature of the data, ensures readability of text against various backgrounds, and incorporates a key for easy reference, thereby enhancing overall data visualization consumption.

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  • I currently create a colour table for every company I work with. I do this almost exclusively for conditional formatting.

    The only reason I do this is because I can't reference theme colours in conditional formatting. Please let us reference theme colours e.g. 'ThemeDataColor' property in conditional formatting.

  • kleigh's avatar
    kleigh
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    The feature on the board says "Auto-color assignment based on text, categories, and measures"... There is a hierarchy here. I'd like to set default colours for my most used measures to keep them consistent. Then on top of that, if a particular category is used, then the colour assignments for this one column take priority over the measure colour.
  • kleigh's avatar
    kleigh
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    The feature on the board says "Auto-color assignment based on text, categories, and measures"... There is a hierarchy here. I'd like to set default colours for my most used measures to keep them consistent. Then on top of that, if a particular category is used, then the colour assignments for this one column take priority over the measure colour.

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