Tableau Tutorials for Beginners — Segment 5
Hello friends! Hope you have already read and enjoyed Segment 4 of this tutorial. In case you have not yet, please take out 10 minutes of your valuable time to understand the concepts explained in Segment 4.
You can access it at this link ( Tableau Tutorials for Beginners — Segment 4)
In today’s article, we will start learning how to start creating basic visualizations in Tableau. In Tableau, there are a set of default in-built charts and there are charts that you can custom build based on your requirements. Let us start with the in-built ones.
Whenever you drag and drop some dimension and measure into rows and columns, Tableau will automatically create a chart based on the type of data that has been dragged in the canvas. In the above case, Sub-Category[Dimension] and SUM(Sales)[Measure] have been dragged, and by default, Tableau has created a bar chart.
In the right-hand pane, it will auto-enable other in-built charts which can be drawn based on the fields that are present in the canvas. At the bottom of the right-hand pane it will also show the tip on how many Dimension and Measure fields are required to generate a particular chart.
NOTE: In the right-hand pane, the charts which are disabled are the ones that can not be generated based on the current number of dimension and measure fields that are there in the canvas
The chart type can also be changed from the list in the left-hand side Marks card, as shown in the image below
As I had mentioned earlier that though Tableau shows the options in between the in-built charts available, that does not mean that only these are the only charts that can be used. There are several other different types of charts that can be custom-built. To see an example of how a custom chart can be built, check this link How to construct Pareto Chart using Tableau
In the next segment, we will learn about the concept of Dual Axis and Reference Line.
