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5 Stylish Chart Types

This document provides descriptions and examples of different types of charts in Tableau: 1. Treemaps visualize hierarchical data with rectangles sized proportionally and color used to show additional dimensions. An example shows an interactive treemap mashed up with a bar chart. 2. Histograms plot the distribution of a variable as a bar chart, useful for retail or customer analytics to count products or spending ranges. An example explores Olympic medal counts by athlete age. 3. Box plots highlight the median, quartiles, and outliers to compare data variations. An example shows home sale prices across five cities. 4. Gantt charts display project timelines and ensure tasks are completed on schedule. An example

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5 Stylish Chart Types

This document provides descriptions and examples of different types of charts in Tableau: 1. Treemaps visualize hierarchical data with rectangles sized proportionally and color used to show additional dimensions. An example shows an interactive treemap mashed up with a bar chart. 2. Histograms plot the distribution of a variable as a bar chart, useful for retail or customer analytics to count products or spending ranges. An example explores Olympic medal counts by athlete age. 3. Box plots highlight the median, quartiles, and outliers to compare data variations. An example shows home sale prices across five cities. 4. Gantt charts display project timelines and ensure tasks are completed on schedule. An example

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Treemap
Treemaps are a powerful and compact way to visualize hierarchical and part-to-whole relationships. Each branch of the tree is represented as a
rectangle, with the size of a branch proportionate to a specified measure of the data. A lot of people like treemaps because they're visually
attractive, so understanding how to leverage color is a plus. Color is often used to show dimensions in a treemap—heat maps work well if you
want to show a spectrum.

What’s more, you can go way beyond the standard treemap in Tableau. For example, here’s an interactive chart of treemaps mashed up with a
bar chart:

Learn how to build a treemap (or word cloud) in Tableau

2. Histogram
Histograms plot the number of occurrences of a given variable in a set of data. They’re a great tool for getting an overview of the entire
distribution of a variable, and they take the form of a bar chart. Imagine using histograms for retail analytics, to count the number of sales of
individual products by category. Or in customer analytics, to tally the range of spending in a certain demographic.

Here’s a fun example, where you can explore how many medals were won by Olympic athletes of a certain age:
Learn how to build a histogram in Tableau

3. Box plot
A box plot (or box-and-whisker plot) is a diagram of a distribution of data best known for highlighting these values:

 first quartile
 median
 third quartile
 whiskers (1.5 times the interquartile range away from the mean)
 outliers

Box plots are useful for comparing sets of data—especially the variations in the data. They're a favorite of statisticians, and used commonly in
statistical analytics. Tableau can plot hundreds of thousands of rows per second, so it can convey much more information than the standard box
plot.

Ideal for the housing market, the following example shows home sales in five cities. At a glance you can see that the median price in San
Francisco is the highest, but Los Angeles has the most expensive house sold:
Learn how to build a box plot in Tableau

4. Gantt chart
Gantt charts are the enemy of procrastination, keeping those micro-deadlines between projects well in view. They’re great for displaying a
timeline such as project stages or a product release—to ensure you release the beta before the product.

The viewer can instantly see when parts of a project begin and end in relation to each other, without having to cross check between pages or
sheets. Did you know? The first Gantt-type chart was developed in 1896, and was called a harmonogram. So all your departments can work in
harmony.

And as Henry Gantt would tell you, it's not a Gant chart.

Here's an example, showing the launch/discontinuation dates of all of Apple's products:


Learn how to build a Gantt chart in Tableau

5. Word cloud
Word clouds are like bubble charts in that words are sized according to some numerical measure and all packed into a designated space. They’re
useful for presenting data about—you guessed it—words. While word clouds are not the best for accurate interpretation, sometimes they add
impact to a dashboard and encourage more people to engage with the data.
Here's a word cloud of frequencies in the l

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