Tableau 10 Business Intelligence Cookbook

Chapter 1. Basic Charts

In this chapter, we will cover:

• Creating a bar chart
• Creating a stacked bar chart
• Creating a line chart
• Creating a scatter plot
• Creating a heat map
• Creating a text table (crosstab)
• Creating a highlight table
• Creating an area chart
• Creating a pie chart
• Creating a bubble chart
• Creating a word cloud
• Creating a tree map

Introduction

You are about to embark on a wonderful journey with Tableau! We will classify charts that are easily created in Tableau without much customization as basic. Charts that might be less commonly used, or ones that require more steps and configurations, will be tackled in the next chapter as advanced charts.

In this chapter, we will start with the basic charts that you can create with Tableau. Each recipe will demonstrate ...