What is a Jitter Bar chart? It looks like a COMBINATION of a Bar and a Scatter plot. Why you use Bar charts - when you want to show values for different groups. They can be used for rankings and visual differences between categories. Why you use Scatter plots - when you want to identify a pattern between two numerical values. They can also be used to display outliers and show trends in the data. Adding a Standard Deviation to a Scatter plot helps you to visualize the re

Continuing from last week's blog about creating a Tree map chart inside a Bar chart; this week I will cover how to create a Bar inside a Bar chart! I'm not talking about Stacked bar charts but a series of bars in side a bigger bar! This blog is also an example of why you would use an EXCLUDE LOD calculation. This was a Workout Wednesday challenge from early in 2025. Donna Coles provides you with steps using the Subtotals function from the Tableau's Analysis menu here . Workou

Bar charts are the number one chart used for analysis. In the next couple of blogs I want to review how to make different kinds of charts inside bars! A tree map is a chart that is used for visualizing hierarchical data and part to whole relationships. You can easily embed one inside a Bar chart in Tableau! I created one here in my first ever #GamesNightViz dashboard here on Lego Video Games! #GamesNightViz is a project started by Iron Viz winner Will Sutton . Tableau Vision

What if you have a dashboard that has worksheets pointing to two data sources on the server? The issue is that you want to filter both using only one filter. Maybe you have a Date value in both and you don't want to display two different Date filters on your dashboard. How can you solve for this? You could perform data blending , however, this has some downsides such as performance issues, and you can't use some calculations such as COUNTD, MEDIAN etc. I suggest using a par

What if you wanted to reduce the number of worksheets you have in a dashboard. Did you know that you can put your KPI in the title of a worksheet? I found this idea from Sebastine Amede 's Tableau Public dashboard 20 KPI Cards Using Only Table Calculations here . Printscreen of his Tableau Public dashboard He has quite a few different options for displaying this "all in one" concept. He is only displaying the metric Profit , so I wanted to see if I could replicate it, but wi

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