Conditional formatting numbers in Tableau

Question

I have some basic spreadsheet info and I need to compare it to previous quarters. I just want a crosstab or heatmap type visualization showing if we are up or down from previous quarter.

Something like this:

So leads and closings have increased quarter over quarter so those should be color coded green. Referrals should be coded green for the first two but code red for Q22018 since the number went down. Is this possible in Tableau? I played around with a calculated field but I'm not sure how to compare the number to a previous quarter info number and not a set number.

I'd like it to look something like this:

Adding screenshot:

Answer 1

You can use Tableau calculation in Color shelf

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