Tableau Charts in a Nutshell Line — View trends in data over time. Examples: Stock price change over a five-year period or website page views during a month. Bar — Compare data across categories. Examples: Volume of shirts in different sizes, or percent of spending by department. Heat Map — Show the relationship between two factors. Examples: Segment analysis of target market, or sales leads by individual rep. Highlight Table — Shows detailed information on heat maps. Examples: The percent of a market for different segments, or sales numbers in a region. Treemap — Show hierarchical data as a proportion of a whole. Examples: Storage usage across computer machines, comparing fiscal budgets between years. Gantt — Show duration over time. Examples: Project timeline, duration of a machine’s use, availability of players on a team. ...
