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Seema Acharya and Subhashini Chellappan, Pro Tableau, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2352-9_9

9. Advanced Visualization

Seema Acharya and Subhashini Chellappan2

(1)Pune, Maharashtra, India

(2)Bangalore, Karnataka, India

“In good information visualization, there are no rules, no guidelines, no templates, no standard technologies, no stylebooks… You must simply do whatever it takes.”

—Edward Tufte, data scientist, pioneered the field of data visualization

In the previous chapter, we covered few chart forms such as bar chart, pie chart, line graph, scatter plot, histogram, etc. In this chapter, we will cover the following:

  • Waterfall charts

  • Bump charts

  • Bullet graphs

9.1 Waterfall charts

A waterfall chart is a powerful tool ...

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