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Welcome to the first lesson in the Explaining Your Data using Tableau course.
In this lesson,
we will focus on the various types of charts Tableau allows you to use.
I will show the different types of charts that are available within Tableau and
illustrate how to create different types of charts.
After this lesson, you will be able to list the various
types of charts in Tableau and explain how to create a chart within Tableau.
Let me show you what I mean.
From the Tableau home page, look at the Show Me menu.
Here you can see the entire selection of chart types.
If you mouse over each chat type Tableau will offer guidance on which chart type is
best suited for the data you're trying to present.
For example.
For stacked bars, Tableau recommends one or more dimensions and one or
more measures.
Chart types that are not applicable to your worksheet
as it is currently constructed will be grayed out and not selectable.
Until you have the appropriate combination of measures and or dimensions.
The different chart types that Tableau allows you to use include text tables,
which are also cross tabs, heat maps, highlight tables, symbol maps, field maps,
pie charts, horizontal bar charts, stacked bar charts, side by side bar charts.
Tree maps, circle views, side by side circle views, line charts both
continuous and discrete, dual line charts, area charts both continuous and
discrete, scatter plots, histograms, box and whisker plots.
Gantt charts, bullet graphs and finally pack bubbles.
Let's look at each of this in term.