Bar chart in tableau can be design in a different ways to make your visualization awesome.
Why it is important to make you visualization more different way because you can present and show you data insight more clear to the end users and your management. so what are the different types of bar chart in Tableau. In this article you will know 11 different types of Bar chart in Tableau.
# 1. Rounded Edges Bar Chart
It is different way to present your simple bar chart with rounded edges, its give you the different looks and flavour of bar chart.
Bar chart in square shape is the normal one, however, rounded bar chart make its more attractive and appealing to the end users.
# 2. Filled Cylindrical Bar Chart
Filled Cylindrical Bar Chart in Tableau is the one of the bar chart which is mostly used to show the % completion KPIs, to make bar filled with percentage.
It can be used in those kind of data which make sense to completion with Target as 100%.
It is easy to design, However you only need to do the few calculation in terms of percentage%. To make you visualization to fulfil the filled cylindrical bar chart requirements.
# 3. Arrow Bar Chart
How can it is possible to make profit and loss to show with arrow bar chart ?
This question is very common if anyone wants to design profit and loss data with arrows. In Tableau you can define it by using Shapes option in Mark area.
As this option have the many arrow shapes which can be merge with the normal bar chart and can be used to show the +ve and -ve values easily.
# 4. Gender Bar Chart
In HR data, sometime needs to show headcount for Male and Female employees, not in HR data also any kind of data which contains the Male and Female information and you would like to show data insight with simple readable chart then this Gender bar chart is easy to go.
Here only need to show which bar shows the gender information and this can be shown by shape option in Mark area.
you can increase and decrease the size of gender on bar edge and it will be easily go to read and present your data. Steps to design Gender Bar Chart
# 5. Lollipop Chart
Those data which are related to the candy items, food items, chocolates items regarding its sales and profits. then Lollipop bar chart is more attractive way to represent your data.
It will give clear picture and more attractive visualization for your data. You need to use Shape option & Bar options in Mark area. and accordingly define your measures which you would like to show as the data label in lollipop bar chart.
# 6. Variance Bar Chart
Tableau is very advance tool to make any kind of visualization the tricky part is how you can make lots of tricks to make this happened.
and Variance bar chart is one of then, how you can show arrow on the top of Bar chart to show the increase and decrease of variance from last year/month
In below image you can se how the small arrows is showing the inclination of arrow with increase decrease and also the colours of arrow on top of bar.
It is different way to change the setting in primary and secondary axis of charts. Follow steps to design Variance Bar chart.
# 7. Target Bar Chart
This bar chart is the way to represent your Actuals, target and Forecast progress in single bar chart with these three parameters more readable and attractive ways, again here needs to make few changes with primary and secondary axis to design this kind of bar chart, it can be used any three dimension to show.
You can see in below images shows the Green colour is actual , Grey colour is forecast and red line is for Target.
# 8. Flag Bar Chart
Data which contains countries, the suddenly though come in our mind to plot the world map to show the countries wise information.
Which is somewhat good to go. However, you can also make country Flag chart as Bar chart which is more easy to read and predict the trend and variance to show profit & loss.
Top Management always like to read quickly and understand the insight of data, so Flag can be attractive and bar can show the readable information to the management.
# 9. TreeMap Bar Chart
It is very beautiful way to design and show the different information in each bar of chart with different size and colours.
Treemap has the speciality to show size and colour to identify and read the data insight easily. If you will add more parameter and convert the Treemap into bar chart then it will make your visualization more readable and easy for end users to get insight of data.
As you can see above each region shows the food items in different shapes and colours.
# 10. Waterfall Chart
It is simple to design but powerful way to represent your data that how it is performing with increase and decrease of information with different colours.
This is very common way to show the performance of KPIs and indicators for years and months. Sometime it is simple to design but if you will try to make waterfall with different dimension and it will increase the complexity of waterfall chart.
# 11. Simple Bar Chart
Very basic bar chart we called as Simple bar chart, which is the default option as always to create in tableau. But many people like this basic bar chart as it is very easy to read and show the trend information.
You can design as vertical and horizontal ways depends on your data presentation. and you can add many information in Tooltips to make simple bar chart more attractive.
Conclusion:
There are many ways to think and make you visualization very different ways to show your information and make you business decision easily impactful for your organization.
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