Introduction

In previous chapters, you have learned about various charting methods that are reliant upon having both dimensions and measures in the view. However, there may be times, especially in business scenarios, where you only have measures to work with. In this chapter, you will learn how to create charts without dimensions, and also charts with multiple measures. You will learn to create relationships between measures, and will see how advanced Tableau skills like trend and reference lines can help better demonstrate insights to stakeholders.

First, you will explore distribution for a single measure using histograms, box plots, and whisker plots. Then, you will look at distributions across two measures using scatter plots, and scatter plots with trend lines (linear, logarithmic, and exponential). You will then look at advanced visualizations such as dual axis and quadrant charts for multiple dimensions/measures.