Tableau Tutorial — How to create a Circle Timeline Chart
Apr 9, 2022
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