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Tableau Desktop Certified Associate: Exam Guide
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Tableau Desktop Certified Associate: Exam Guide

by Dmitry Anoshin, JC Gillet, Fabian Peri, Radhika Biyani, Gleb Makarenko
December 2019
Beginner
370 pages
8h 9m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Tableau Desktop Certified Associate: Exam Guide

Bar charts

Bar charts are one of the easiest tools for making quick comparisons across categorical data. Bar charts compare data on a linear scale and quickly make it easy to compare data points across dimensions. Tableau has three types of bar chart variants available in the Show Me menu:

  • Horizontal bar charts
  • Stacked bar charts
  • Side-by-side bar charts

Simple bar charts are the best kind of charts to use whenever questions are asked about the largest or smallest values, what dimension values are in the top or bottom five, and so on. As these values are all displayed on a linear scale, they are also useful for quick approximations of data. For example, which product's sales are approximately half of the product with the second-highest number ...

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ISBN: 9781838984137