Summary

That wraps up this chapter. In this lesson, you created your first charts in Tableau, starting with bar charts, which are used for comparisons across dimensions, followed by line charts to show comparisons over time. You also looked at how bullet charts and bar-in-bar charts differ and the best use cases for them when exploring comparisons across measures.

You further composed snapshots, working through three major chart types: stacked bar charts, pie charts, and treemaps. When exploring treemaps, instead of using a standard treemap, you added an extra layer by utilizing multiple measures where the primary measure, Sales, was used for the size of the rectangle and a secondary measure, Profit ratio, was used for profit/loss using two different colors. The different colors made it easier for stakeholders to identify profit-making states across superstore categories.

Although we did discuss line charts for time series data, we also decided to work through an area chart...