How to make Tableau filled maps more interesting
Often when you use a filled map in Tableau and colour it using a particular measure the map looks rather bland. This is caused by a couple of countries having particularly high or low values and therefore skewing the colours. If the high/low values are for small island countries then they will be practically invisible and the whole map will have pretty much the same colour. Here is an example of a filled map coloured by a measure 'Merchandise trade as a percentage of GDP'. It looks very bland ...
