Smart Tableau Bar Chart With Target Line
Length of bar chart is equal to actual and reference line is placed at target position.
Tableau bar chart with target line. Open Tableau and Connect to the Sample Superstore Sales Excel Drag the Profit Ratio to the Column Shelf and the Customer Segment the row shelf. You can add additional fields to these shelves. In a classic bar chart race the highest ranked bar always fills the available width of the chart window.
To Add a Reference Line. Tableau Line Charts Tableau Bar Charts Tableau Circle Charts Tableau Pie Charts Tableau Text Tables Tableau Cross Tab Tableau Heat Map. Tableau charts how when to use reference lines bands distributions make bullet graphs in tableau.
How does a Tableau bullet graph work. Your Add Reference Dialog will. Column chart with target line Combo charts combine more than one Excel chart type in the same chart.
Create the reference line. In the formula field create a calculated field similar to the following. Like a standard bar graph a bullet graph can be presented either horizontally or vertically.
Select a continuous field from the Value field to use as the basis for your reference line. Tableau selects this mark type when the data view matches one of the two field arrangements shown below. A bar in bar tableau chart plots two bars in the same space one thicker one thinner.
Further actual bar is colour coded with target achievement. Now Tableaus Bar marks are always based on 0. Bring out a dimension and two measures on a new worksheet.