Bar Chart in Tableau - Tableau charts

0:00Hey it's Tim here, I've got two minutes to

0:02show you how to build a bar chart and we're

0:04gonna add some flair because that's plenty

0:06of time.

0:07Let's grab our dimension subcategory put

0:08that on rows that will make the rows go

0:10from left

0:11to right.

0:12Let's grab the metric we're going to use

0:14for this bar chart we'll use quantity just

0:16to

0:16mix it up a little bit and there we go we

0:17have a bar chart.

0:18If you want to rotate this just go to the

0:20top and you'll see this icon press that and

0:23it will just rotate the charts.

0:25Notice what it does to do that is

0:26essentially swap what's on columns and rows

0:28so we'll do

0:28that manually here just to show you and it

0:31basically achieves the same result.

0:33Now we're going to add a bit of flair we've

0:35got plenty of time left let's copy this

0:36quantity

0:37filled and duplicate it.

0:38I'm going to hold command or control drag

0:41it across and you'll see we get two bar

0:43charts.

0:43With the second bar chart over here on the

0:45bottom left I want to make sure that this

0:47is a Gantt chart we're going to add a bit

0:48of flair so we're totally breaking the

0:50rules

0:50here but nonetheless once we've set that to

0:52a Gantt chart we're going to go to the

0:53first

0:54bar chart at the top and we're going to set

0:56that to bar rather than automatic.

0:58The reason this is is when we switch to a

1:00dual axis it will actually change the chart

1:02type on us if we tell tableau not to do

1:04that by setting it to a bar chart it will

1:06stay

1:06the same.

1:08Now we'll set this to a dual axis we'll

1:09take the second measure go down to the

1:11bottom select

1:12dual axis that will lay the two charts on

1:13top of each other but of course we can't

1:15see

1:16anything different because they're the same

1:18color so we'll go to the first bar chart

1:19here

1:20select the color and we'll set that to a

1:22much paler shade of blue and boom we've got

1:24a bar

1:24chart with a little bit of flair.

1:26Before we move on we just need to make sure

1:28we synchronize the axis you can't really

1:29see

1:29the difference here but unless we do that

1:32these two won't stay synchronized.

1:33The last thing to do is hide this axis on

1:35the right hand side we don't need that

1:36right

1:37click and go ahead and hide the header and

1:39boom we've got a bar chart with a bit of

1:42flair

1:42and of course this still works like any

1:45other bar chart you can sort it you can

1:47rotate it

1:47and I just think it generally looks a lot

1:49nicer.

1:50Thanks for watching and I'll see you in the

1:51next video.

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