In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Building views manually
- Building views automatically
- Understanding Show Me!
- Creating a Text table
- Creating a Highlight table
- Creating a Heat map
- Creating a Bar chart
- Creating a Stacked Bar chart
- Creating a Pie chart
- Creating a Line chart
- Creating an Area chart
- Creating a Treemap
- Creating a Packed Bubble chart
- Creating a Word cloud
In the previous chapter, we saw how to connect to data, got ourselves acquainted with Tableau's User Interface, and created a simple visualization. Moving forward, in this chapter we will focus on how we can visualize our data and get introduced to the various chart types in Tableau.
Tableau is a new-generation data visualization tool with a user-friendly interface, and empowers users with the ability to quickly analyze their data and instantly create rich, powerful, and interactive visualizations. We can create visualizations in Tableau by adopting the Manual approach or the Automatic approach. Let's understand both these approaches in the following sections.
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