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Tableau Cookbook - Recipes for Data Visualization

By : Shweta Sankhe-Savale
Book Image

Tableau Cookbook - Recipes for Data Visualization

By: Shweta Sankhe-Savale

Overview of this book

Data is everywhere and everything is data! Visualization of data allows us to bring out the underlying trends and patterns inherent in the data and gain insights that enable faster and smarter decision making. Tableau is one of the fastest growing and industry leading Business Intelligence platforms that empowers business users to easily visualize their data and discover insights at the speed of thought. Tableau is a self-service BI platform designed to make data visualization and analysis as intuitive as possible. Creating visualizations with simple drag-and-drop, you can be up and running on Tableau in no time. Starting from the fundamentals such as getting familiarized with Tableau Desktop, connecting to common data sources and building standard charts; you will walk through the nitty gritty of Tableau such as creating dynamic analytics with parameters, blended data sources, and advanced calculations. You will also learn to group members into higher levels, sort the data in a specific order & filter out the unnecessary information. You will then create calculations in Tableau & understand the flexibility & power they have and go on to building story-boards and share your insights with others. Whether you are just getting started or whether you need a quick reference on a “how-to” question, This book is the perfect companion for you
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Tableau Cookbook – Recipes for Data Visualization
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Creating a Blended axes chart


In the preceding individual axes chart, we saw that, because the measures were not in the same pane, it was difficult to draw inferences by just looking at the chart and without taking the axes' values into consideration.

It would be great if, in the preceding example, we could get both the Profit and Sales in the same pane and have a unified axis for both, so that it is quicker and easier to interpret the chart. This is where we use a Blended axes chart.

As the name suggests, the axis is blended to have a common unified scale to refer to.

Getting ready

We will continue working in the same workbook, and we will also work with the same example that we discussed in the previous recipe, where we compared Profit and Sales across various months for all the years. Let us see how to create a Blended axes chart.

How to do it…

  1. Let us create a new sheet by pressing Ctrl + M and rename it as Blended axes chart.

  2. Next, we will right-click and drag the Order Date field from the...