Circle

The Circle Mark type is represented with theicon.

You can use Circles in many different ways. Tableau always represents the values with a filled Circle. The big advantage of this Mark type is that you can easily use two properties: Color and Size, on top of the position of the circle, as shown in the following screenshot:

In the example, we represent every State with a Circle. The size of the Circle represents the sales, and the color represents the discount amount. With this visualization, you can see that:

  • California and New York

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