Bar chart is simple graph, you can see how to create simple bar chart. However, in this Gender bar graph, we are trying to create Gender symbols on the each bar, and this will be very helpful to users to recognize which bar is for which gender. This simple gender bar chart in tableau visualization is totally informative and rally looks good.
It is not limited to only gender bar graph you can use any icon which is available in Tableau Shape. Even if you have any another Icon which you like to make on Bar graph you can import in the Tableau Shape easily.
Below are the dataset used to design the Gender Bar Graph In Tableau:
Steps:
- First step to drag the Region and Gender in Column area
- Then drag the Employee count in Rows area twice next to each other as you can se in Image
- And Change the second employee into dual Axis
- The you will see the two employee in the Mark area left side
- Then change the first employee into Bar chart through drop down option
- Then Drag the gender in the Colour area to change the bar colour for Female and Male
- After that change the chart option for second dimension Employee into shape from drop down option
- And drag Gender into Shape option. (try to make copy of Gender Dimension as it will show different colours if you will drag gender to second Employee area
- Now after dragging the Gender on shape, click on Shape and change the ICON for both Female and Male
- You can see how you can select one by one Female and Male to change the icon in below video image
- Then after that drag the gender (copy) dimension in colour option and change the dark colour of each Icon
- Finally synchronize the dual axis to make gender bar graph visible
Watch video Guide:
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