Creating Visualizations in Tableau
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Building Tableau Visualizations
Building Tableau Visualizations
Visualizations are the most powerful feature within Tableau. In this opening lesson, I'll show you how to create different types of charts using the Show Me dropdown.
The Five Formatting Options for Your Charts
The Five Formatting Options for Your Charts
All Tableau charts have 5 formatting options on the Marks card which are used to edit visualizations. In this lesson, we'll examine all of these in detail, to understand how they are used when creating visualizations.
Box Plots
Box Plots
Box plots are a great alternative to bar charts because they show both the average and each individual data point. As a result, you can see how data is distributed within a column or row.
Tables, Heat Maps and Tree Maps
Tables, Heat Maps and Tree Maps
Heat maps and tree maps enable you to color-code larger data tables. Learn how and when to use these visualizations in this lesson.
How to Create Two Charts in One in Tableau
How to Create Two Charts in One in Tableau
Including two charts in one is a common visualization technique. In this lesson, we'll learn how to combine a 100% stacked bar chart with a line chart.
Using the Analytics Tab in Your Visualizations
Using the Analytics Tab in Your Visualizations
The analytics tab enables you to add reference lines and bands to your charts. In this lesson, we will learn to insert both constant and computed lines into a bar chart.
Creating X-Y Scatter Plots for Two Measures
Creating X-Y Scatter Plots for Two Measures
X-Y scatter plots are fantastic visualizations when plotting large datasets and clustering. They can also interact really well with text tables, as we will see in this lesson.
Introducing Maps in Tableau
Introducing Maps in Tableau
Maps are one of the most powerful visualizations in Tableau and are relatively straightforward to create. In this lesson, we'll use maps to plot revenue by state.
Symbol Maps
Symbol Maps
Symbol maps provide much more granularity than fillable maps we showed in a previous lesson. Learn how to create symbol maps in this lesson.
Other Charts Part 1
Other Charts Part 1
In this lesson, we'll explore some of the remaining chart options which we haven't utilized in this course so far.
Other Charts Part 2
Other Charts Part 2
In this lesson, we'll wrap up looking at the remaining visualization options and finish with 4 tips to always think about when building charts in Tableau
