How to Make Unit Charts with Continuous Measures in Tableau
Unit charts – or stacked bar charts made up of equal-sized marks – take the benefits of the bar chart and add a practical design aesthetic by...Read More
Chart types
Innovative Tableau: How to Add Vertical Lines to Connect Slope Graphs
Innovative Tableau is now available for pre-order at Amazon! To celebrate, we’re sharing a full-length chapter excerpt from the forthcoming...Read More
How to Reorder Stacked Bars on the Fly in Tableau
I often mention during my training workshops that stacked bar charts are among my least favorite chart types because unless a dimension member is on...Read More
How to Make a Biggest Movers Chart in Tableau
A biggest movers chart shows performance for the dimension members with the largest period over period changes, whether those changes are positive or...Read More
How to Make Ranged Dot Plots in Tableau
Ranged dot plots display not only a circle mark representing the current performance for a specific dimension member, but a full range of how that...Read More
How to Make Hub and Spoke Maps in Tableau
Hub and spoke maps not only plot locations on a map, but they draw connecting lines between the origin and one or more destinations. This type of map...Read More
How to Make Connected Scatter Plots in Tableau
As I mentioned in the post, 3 Ways to Make Stunning Scatter Plots, this chart type is already my third favorite for its innate ability to visualize...Read More
Introducing Leapfrog Charts in Tableau
Leapfrog charts are a variation on a minimalist dot plot and can be used when the primary objective is to show the relative performance of a specific...Read More
3 Ways to Make Splendid Slope Graphs in Tableau
I always say that one specific chart type per analytics scenario will help you capture roughly half the insight. Comparing categorical data? I always...Read More