Tableau: Creating Interactive Data Visualizations

Chapter 3. Creating Bivariate Charts

An analysis involving two measures is called bivariate analysis, and in this chapter we will cover various bivariate charts.

We will be covering the following topics:

• Creating tables
• Creating scatter plots
• Swapping rows and columns
• Adding trend lines
• Selecting color palettes
• Using dates

Introduction

This chapter provides recipes for generating visualizations when using two measures. Such visualizations can help a user with formulating questions that can be answered using data. There are other recipes that manipulate existing data to generate alternative visualizations, such as swapping rows and columns and using color palettes. This chapter also explains how to add trend lines to existing visualizations to extend the ...