Tableau Scatter Plot Animation

Create scatter plots, add trend lines, create annotations, and autoplay charts in Tableau

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In this tutorial, we will talk about how to create a Tableau scatter plot and animate it by category using autoplay. You will learn:

• How to create a scatter plot using Tableau?
• How to add trend lines to the scatter plot?
• How to add an annotation to Tableau charts?
• How to automatically create charts by category and autoplay the charts?

Resources for this post:

• Video tutorial on YouTube
• More tutorials on visualization

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Step 1: Read Data Into Tableau

Tableau provides a wide variety of options for connecting to a data source. The file types Tableau can read include Microsoft Excel, Text file, JSON file, PDF file, etc. The server types that Tableau can connect to include MySQL, Oracle, Amazon Redshift, Google Drive, etc. Please refer to my tutorial How To…