Tableau Cookbook – Recipes for Data Visualization

Creating a Stacked Bar chart

A Stacked Bar chart is an extension of the bar chart where we use colors to represent additional information. These are typically used when we are trying to show a comparison within a particular category as well as across categories.

So, for example, in the previous recipe where we created a bar chart showing Sales across Region, we would additionally want to look at the performance of various product categories within a particular region and compare their performance across regions. To understand this, we will create a Stacked Bar chart.

How to do it…

1. Let us duplicate the Bar chart sheet by right-clicking on the sheet tab of Bar chart and then selecting the Duplicate Sheet option. Refer to the following image:
2. We will ...