Arrow Bar Chart in Tableau Easy to Design

How you can design Arrow bar chart in Tableau, where you can show the performance of indicator. This arrow bar chart will be helpful for you, if you like to show the performance of any indicator. How to design Arrow Bar Chart in Tableau is easy, below details explain the steps of designing Arrow Bar chart.

Where can use These Chart?

You can use to show the performance of any indicator of your organization, Profit and lose indicator, increase and decrease indicator, how cost is performing, etc..

Below Dataset used to design Arrow Bar chart in Tableau:

Arrow bar chart Dataset

 

Steps:

1. Drag the first dimension/parameter in Column on which you would like to create chart

2. Drag Total profit (Measures) on Rows twice next to each other

 

3. Convert the second Total profit into the Secondary axis and Synchronize the axis (right click on second axis and then click on Synchronize axis option)

 

4. Now create the new Calculated filed with name Profit indicator below is the Formula used for the indicator.

 

5. Then next step convert the first Total profit into the Bar chart option from Marks card option

 

6. Then next change the second total profit option into the shapes from Mark card option

Arrow bar chart step5

 

7. Then Drag the “Profit Indicator” on shapes area for total profit

8. And change the shapes into the arrow for green in upward direction and for Red in downward direction.

Arrow bar chart step6

 

9. Now drag “Profit Indicator” to the Mark card on Colour option

Arrow bar chart step7

 

10. Change the colours for Green and Red as shown in below screenshot.

Arrow bar chart step8

 

11. Now decrease the size of Bar using size option from Mark card

Arrow bar chart step9

 

12. And finally drag the “Profit Indicator” calculated field on first total profit bar option in Mark card.

13. Then you will see the final result of the arrow bar chart in Tableau.

Final step for Arrow bar chart in Tableau step10

 

Summary:

I hope you all enjoyed this article. Do let me know if you experienced any issues while creating this arrow bar chart, please leave a comment below.

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