Tableau: Creating Interactive Data Visualizations

Applying various marks

Tableau provides various ways to encode data using different marks including Square, Circle, and Shape. The Square and Circle marks will show data points using a square or circle shape. By using the Shape mark, however, we can assign some attribute values to various shapes and help the reader distinguish data points by those shapes.

Getting ready

Let's use the sample file Sample – Coffee Chain (Access). Open a new worksheet and select Sample – Coffee Chain (Access) as the data source.

How to do it...

Once the data is loaded on the worksheet, perform the following steps to use various marks to denote the data points:

1. While holding the Ctrl key, click on Market from Dimensions and Profit from Measures.
2. Click on the Show Me button ...