3 Ways to Make Powerful Pareto Charts in Tableau
Pareto charts – named for the Pareto principle inspired by Italian economist, Vilfredo Pareto – help visualize the dimension members causing the...Read More
Chart types
How to Make a Polygon Scatter Plot in Tableau
Scatter plots are a great way to explore correlations and visually identify outliers in your data. But what if your end user is tired of the...Read More
3 Ways to Make Wonderful Waterfall Charts in Tableau
Waterfall charts visualize the individual categorical or time period contributions to a running total and are one of my favorite choices for analyzing...Read More
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
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