Creating fundamental charts
Tableau provides you with the flexibility to create a wide range of almost limitless charts, limited only by your creativity and advanced mathematics skills. Fortunately, the charts you will learn about for the Tableau Desktop Specialist Exam do not require you to implement trigonometry, geometry, or calculus. In my 10 years of professional experience with the tool, these charts cover well over 90% of use cases. In the next few sub-sections, we will learn how to create basic charts, maps, and multiple-axis charts.
In the following sections, we will cover the following basic charts, all of which will be covered in the exam:
- Bar chart
- Crosstab or data table
- Highlight table
- Stacked bar chart
- Line chart
- Area chart
- Scatter plot
- Dual-axis chart
- Filled map
- Point Map
- Density Map
Let us begin!
Bar chart
A bar chart is the most visual chart type, and one of the most easily understood. Bar charts are used...
