A stacked bar in Tableau is a type of bar chart that represents values in the form of segmented bars. Here, each bar is divided into different segments or sections, providing further details about the field and regions. With this, not only can you compare the main data variables, but also...
Tableau enthusiast Matt Chambers. ForMakeover Monday, I wanted to tell the story of how Facebook is making an effort to make clean and renewable power its primary source of energy. I wanted to be able to sort the stacked bars by energy usage percentage by year. Here's how it's ...
Enter Set ActionsTo focus on one category at a time while keeping the others in sight, I implemented an interactive component.Notice how we can move the bars we’re interested in at the bottom by merely clicking on a particular stage “button”:Interact with it here...
@Bryan Mac (Member) This post shows how to sort each bar in a stacked bar chart Tableau tip: How to sort stacked bars by multiple dimensions. Your multiple dimensions are YearMonth and whatever is determining the color in the stacked bar chart. It may be possible to keep month and y...
The issue I am facing is that the Sankey arms are not aligning with the stacked bars (Image and workbook attached). I am on Tableau desktop with the latest version. Having put in so much time in, I did not want to shelve the visualisation hence I am reaching out to the Tableau comm...
While bringing all category totals into a separate line series with its own axis and then letting regular bars take care of the rest might sound appropriate, I don’t think so. Not to mention that I am not a big fan of dual-axis charts, at least when I have data and questions like ...
I’ve found that 100% bar graphs, designed in the conventional way, are only useful for a limited set of circumstances. Unlike normal stacked bars, the lengths of 100% stacked bars never vary, for they always add up to 100%. Consequently, when multiple 100% stacked bars appear in...
And here is the stacked column chart, where Trend1 through Trend4 have been converted tostackedlines with markers. And we’re done. No need to plot trendlines, because they are calculated in the Trend data, and no need to delete or hide all that stuff we need but don’t want clutterin...
explaining why they were useful and how they show data in unusual ways. The first is what I’ll call a ghost-stacked bar, seen above. This shows which journalists send the most reply tweets. Importantly, it also has the retweet and tweet bars shown, in white, to show context. This sty...
Pauline Le Corvec (Tableau) 6 years ago Thanks Alex, the link is fixed. UpvoteUpvotedRemove Upvote Alec Alders (Member) 6 years ago While this method works well for positive values, i'm seeing it has problems for negative values. The segmented values are sorted 1) High to low for all...