Introduction

Thus far, you have prepared, imported, and manipulated data for your visualizations. Considering that Tableau is a business intelligence and visualization tool, it is natural to now start creating your first charts. Before you can do this, however, (and certainly before you can create more advanced charts as you will in Chapter 5, Data Exploration: Distribution and Relationships), you must first learn the ins and out of creating charts.

For this reason, you'll only be creating some basic charts initially, and then eventually work through some intermediate-level charts, such as tree maps and bar-in-bar charts. The goal for this chapter is to be able to answer questions such as "How much profit was generated in sales by each sub-category in a specific year?," which is basically asking "How much of your total sales was generated by each sub-category?" In doing so, this chapter also teaches you how to remove complex terminology and communicate...