You're reading from Learning Tableau 2020 Create effective data visualizations, build interactive visual analytics, and transform your organization

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800200364

Length 576 pages

Edition 4th Edition

Tools

Tableau

Concepts

Business Intelligence

Author (1):

Joshua N. Milligan

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Taking Off with Tableau

2. Connecting to Data in Tableau FREE CHAPTER

3. Moving Beyond Basic Visualizations

4. Starting an Adventure with Calculations and Parameters

5. Leveraging Level of Detail Calculations

6. Diving Deep with Table Calculations

7. Making Visualizations That Look Great and Work Well

8. Telling a Data Story with Dashboards

9. Visual Analytics – Trends, Clustering, Distributions, and Forecasting

10. Advanced Visualizations

11. Dynamic Dashboards

12. Exploring Mapping and Advanced Geospatial Features

13. Understanding the Tableau Data Model, Joins, and Blends

14. Structuring Messy Data to Work Well in Tableau

15. Taming Data with Tableau Prep

16. Sharing Your Data Story

17. Other Books You May Enjoy

18. Index

Marimekko charts

A Marimekko chart (sometimes alternately called a Mekko chart) is similar to a vertically stacked bar chart, but additionally uses varying widths of bars to communicate additional information about the data. Here, for example, is a Marimekko chart showing the breakdown of sales by region and department.

The width of the bars communicates the total Sales for Region, while the height of each segment gives you the percentage of sales for the Department within the Region:

Figure 10.11: The amount of sales per Department is indicated by the height of each segment, while the width of each bar indicates the overall sales per Region

Creating Marimekko charts in Tableau leverages the ability to fix the width of bars according to the axis' units.

Clicking the Size shelf when a continuous (green) field is on Columns (thus defining a horizontal axis) and the mark type is set to Bar reveals options for a fixed size. You can manually enter...