Tableau Tutorial — How to create a Circle Timeline Chart

Circle timeline charts are good for showing discrete values of varying sizes across multiple categories¹.

The dataset being used below is the Superstore Dataset available on Tableau Community.

Steps to create a Circle Timeline Chart —

• Drag a Date variable to the Columns Shelf

• Drag a Categorical Variable to the Rows Shelf

• Drag a Numerical Variable to the Color Marks

• Drag an additional Numerical Variable to the Size Marks

• Change the Mark type to Circle

• Increase the size of the Circle

[1]: Financial Times. (March 7, 2021). Charts that work: FT visual vocabulary guide https://www.ft.com/content/c7bb24c9-964d-479f-ba24-03a2b2df6e85

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