Learning Tableau 2019 - Third Edition

Variations of date and time visualizations

The ability to use various parts and values of dates and even mix and match them gives you a lot of flexibility in creating unique and useful visualizations.

For example, using the month date part for columns and the year date part for color gives a time series that makes year-over-year analysis quite easy. The year date part has been copied to the label so that the lines can be labeled:

Clicking on any of the shelves on the Marks card will give you a menu of options. Here, Label has been clicked, and the label was adjusted to show only at the end of each line.

The following heat map is another example ...