Category: Chart Types
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3 Ways to Make Stunning Scatter Plots in Oracle Analytics Cloud
The scatter plot is a chart type that has many uses in visual analytics. They’re used to visualize relationships between two measures, reveal trends,…
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How to Make a Biggest Movers Chart in Power BI
Biggest movers charts in Power BI are powerful charts that show the performance of dimension members with the largest absolute period-over-period change. Typically, report…
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3 Ways to Make Beautiful Bar Charts in Oracle Analytics Cloud
When it comes to comparing discrete categorical values, rarely is there a better choice than the bar chart. Invented by our company’s namesake, William…
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3 Ways to Make Lovely Line Graphs in Oracle Analytics Cloud
As far as I’m concerned, boring chart types are always in style. The problem-solving principle of Occam’s Razor states that, the simplest solution is…
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Introducing Balance Scale Charts in Tableau
The “Balance Scale chart” came to life during a team brainstorming session while building the Financial Analysis Swift as we discussed different chart types…
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How to Make 80/20 Pareto Charts in Power BI
Pareto charts are powerful visualizations that help determine your business’ best performers. In this tutorial, I’ll create a Pareto chart in Power BI to…
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Introducing Sankey Bump Charts in Tableau
For a while now, I have been thinking of ways to show how a single dimension member ranks over several measures. I ran across…
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How to Make Sensational Spider Charts in Tableau
Spider charts, also known as radar charts, are an engaging and perhaps underutilized chart for visual analytics. While this advanced chart may not be…
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How to Build a Semi-Sunburst Chart in Tableau
A Semi-Sunburst chart in Tableau creates a visually striking effect that catches the viewer’s attention. If you need to add a secret weapon to…
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Avoiding Common Pitfalls in Chart Design
Choosing and designing charts is a deceptively challenging aspect of data visualization. It can seem obvious when someone else made a poor design choice,…
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How to Make a Heat Map in Tableau
A Tableau heat map is a chart type that allows users to quickly identify patterns in marks by using the preattentive attributes of color…
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3 Ways to Make Lovely Line Graphs in Power BI
If you read the first installation in this series on how to make Power BI bar charts more engaging, this next entry should be…
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3 Ways to Make Beautiful Bar Charts in Power BI
Despite many new challengers over the years in the world of data visualization, bar charts have remained one of the most effective and understandable…
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How to Make a Pareto Chart in Tableau 2.0
Pareto Charts are powerful, eye-catching visualizations that help illustrate your most significant dimension members. The 80/20 Pareto Principle states that roughly 20% of causes…
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3 More Ways to Make Lovely Line Graphs in Tableau
Tableau line graphs are one of the most widely used visualizations on dashboards today – it’s hard to beat a line graph when it…
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How and Why to Use Diverging Unit Charts in Tableau
A diverging unit chart acts in the same fashion as a normal unit chart but adds another layer of insight to the visualization. With…
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Statistical Tableau: How to Analyze Distribution with Histograms
There are many times when performing data analysis when we may want to view the distribution of our data. One way to view distribution…
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How to Create Engaging Soundwave Charts in Tableau
A soundwave chart, which gets its name for its resemblance to a soundwave (shocking, I know), is excellent for measuring volume across time, dimensions,…
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3 Ways to Make Lively Lollipop Charts in Tableau
If you’ve worked in data analytics or data visualization for any length of time, you’ll know that bar charts are one of the most…
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How to Create a Dynamic Spider Web Background for Radar Charts
Radar charts can be a good option to make comparisons with your data, but one of the problems with this chart type is that…
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3 Ways to Make Spectacular Sparklines in Tableau
Minimalist chart types, like Tableau sparklines, are a great addition to most dashboards because they can add value without overcrowding your view or distracting…
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How to Make an Expanding Donut Chart in Tableau
Did you know that pie charts have been around for over 220 years?! They first appeared in 1801 in William Playfair’s The Statistical Breviary.…
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3 Ways to Make Brilliant Bullet Graphs in Tableau
Setting goals and measuring progress is a common activity for many people. Maybe someone wants to read 25 books, travel to 5 new places,…
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How to Make a Radar Chart in Tableau
Radar charts are great for catching attention! However, keep in mind that they are difficult to interpret. So combining a radar chart with a…