Learning Tableau 2019 - Third Edition

Waterfall Charts

A Waterfall Chart is useful when you want to show how parts successively build up to a whole. In the following screenshot, for example, is a Waterfall Chart showing how profit builds up to a grand total across Departments and Categories of products. Sometimes profit is negative, so at that point the Waterfall Chart takes a dip, while positive values build up toward the total:

Here are the features and techniques used to build the chart:

• The SUM(Profit) field on Rows is a Running Total table calculation (created using a Quick Table Calculation from the drop-down menu) and is computed across the table.
• Row Grand Totals have ...