Tableau's New Radial Chart Type | Tableau 2024.2 and Newer

0:00You can now build radial charts inside a tableau out of the box.

0:04Well, not quite out of the box.

0:05If you go to the marks pane, you'll see that at the very bottom I have the radial chart type here

0:11But in order to see this in this space, what you have to do is add an extension.

0:15Now extensions are capabilities that don't ship with Tableau natively when you install the software, but are available in the Tableau.

0:23Extensions sort of marketplace, and so what you can see here are three built by Tableau: Sankey, Tableau Table, and Radio.

0:31Radio is a new one in 25.

0:333, but here's the thing

0:35It supports older versions of Tableau as well.

0:38So you can go back to 24.

0:402.

0:40So that means if you've had Tableau, depending on when you're watching this.

0:43for the last year and a half you pretty much are going to have this feature supported which is really really nice this is one of the best decisions I think Salesforce or Tableau made.

0:52Making sure that in 24.

0:542 when they ship this capability, all future versions would be supported, which is which is really really nice.

0:59Another thing you'll notice is this is a trusted extension.

1:02What this means is that it's

1:04hosted in a specific way which means you can trust it.

1:07Now in literal terms there's actually three different things that this means here.

1:10So it's hosted by Tableau or built by Tableau plus Salesforce

1:15or a trusted partner.

1:17So it's one of three things.

1:18So you still have to know this, but you do see the information here.

1:21It's hosted here by Tableau in a in a nice secure space.

1:25So

1:26At least for this one you know exactly what's going on.

1:29Now if I go ahead and hit open it will grab the extension and will open up the radio chart type.

1:34And so this works just like you'd expect.

1:36And this is nice because you don't have to use any hacks with pie charts.

1:39It was possible to build a like a donut chart, which is what this does out of the box before.

1:44So let me just show you how this works super quickly.

1:46We'll drag

1:47region onto ring and we'll drag cells onto angle and we're pretty much done.

1:52There's our donut chart and you can see it's interactable, it's clickable.

1:56Now if I want to add another ring around it which is sort of the purpose behind this

1:59Let's say I want to add the country region around this, then I can absolutely do that.

2:04So the regions here are uh more high level than the countries.

2:09So here what I've done is I've added the countries and notice when you do this

2:13the outer level is clickable but not the inner level and I guess this is because Tableau doesn't want to be confused about what you're selecting.

2:20Essentially if I select this

2:23would expect everything to be selected here.

2:25So to me it's not a difficult sort of design thing to make, but um I think they've kept it simple in the ship point and they've made it so that at least you can select the outer one.

2:34This is the same for interaction.

2:36So

2:36If I go put this on my product dashboard, let's go ahead and bring it in, place it here on the right hand side, click this filter option here, just make this a little bit better spaced out

2:46I can actually click these outer rings and you can see that the whole of Tableau changes.

2:50So this is really nice.

2:51This is a really nice thing to see.

2:53If you go back to the chart, you've also got labels here

2:56Um you can play around with all of these set settings.

2:59So tooltips is there.

3:01You can play around with um the centering capability.

3:05An interesting one.

3:06I believe what we can do is put the total sales figure right in the middle there, and then we can can we play around with this formatting?

3:13Yeah, we can.

3:14So if you click on formatting, you get a formatting pane

3:16And these are all the formatting.

3:18So you can do the total angle.

3:20So this is interesting because it suggests that you can even do a gauge in this.

3:25So look at that.

3:25Look at that.

3:26All the people who spend so much time doing pointless gauges.

3:31gonna be so happy.

3:32Uh starting angle, let's say you start it at ninety degrees.

3:36Um there we go.

3:37Um let's do minus ninety.

3:40Here we go.

3:40Let's try that.

3:41Um oh I I don't know how to do this.

3:43Maybe it's 180 is what I'm looking for.

3:45So start at 180.

3:47Oh come on.

3:48Is it 270?

3:49This should be much easier.

3:50Come on, come on.

3:51Come on, there we go.

3:53So I can do like a semicircle, which is kind of nice.

3:56I can change the padding, um, which is essentially the the gap between the different um containers, but you gotta be careful because

4:03It doesn't really format that nicely if you don't show the labels.

4:07Um, you can change the value, you can change the font, you can even make them bold.

4:12You can make them super small so they're a little bit more legible where you need them to be.

4:16And then the center you can set the size for this so you can change it, you can sort of

4:22Make it larger.

4:24There's a lot of customization capabilities available here.

4:26I think this is too big, so let's get this deck down to like uh a reasonable size.

4:31And by the way, why isn't this not just using the same font?

4:34Um

4:34Why is it not using Tableau Book?

4:36Why is Tableau Book not even here?

4:38I have no idea.

4:40So there must be okay.

4:43So the automatic font sizing will space it out to fill the space.

4:47So

4:48This will override the font, so that's pretty much how it works.

4:51So yeah, I think that's sort of the best thing to do.

4:54I would just set this to like a specific font size, then you can control it

4:59Edit the colours, you can obviously go into the extension radial and you can then go ahead and choose your brand new color palette that you might have used in this new version of Tablet as well.

5:10Um Tableau 25.

5:113 has a new colour palette feature.

5:12I just did a video on that, so you can go ahead and do that.

5:15Let's do uh dual bright, assign that palette, and then there we go.

5:19Oh that's really really bright.

5:21So

5:22There we go.

5:22So yeah, um that is the new radial chart type insider tableau.

5:28It does weird things, uh it allows you to do pretty much anything you wanted to do.

5:32Um it would be nice to have a specific dimension control the color, but um it's going to be this first one, the category that you picked.

5:39So what if I change the

5:42Um actually it was the region, actually, sorry, that I picked.

5:45So what if I change the order of these?

5:47Um the same color palette stays involved.

5:52Let's bring region back on.

5:54It goes to the bottom.

5:56But unfortunately the colour is locked in.

6:01So if you wanted to change that, you have to go back and change the palette.

6:04So I guess that makes sense.

6:05If you're using um specific color for region already in the workbook,

6:10Then you might need to make sure you're applying this consistently, essentially.

6:14So yeah, there we go.

6:15And yeah, it's it sits uh on your dashboard wherever you need it to be in a very sort of interesting way.

6:20So that's pretty much it.

6:21That's the feature in a nutshell

6:23Thanks for watching.

6:24I'm Tim.

6:24I'm a Tableau Visionary.

6:25I teach people Tableau.

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