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Side by Side bar charts are a very popular type of bar charts in which there are multiple bars attached to form a group and this group of multiple bars is repeated. This type of chart can be used in a variety of use cases, the most popular being comparing multiple measures with each other and also observing the change in those measures with time or across different categories. Despite of being popular, there is no way we can create this type of chart by just dragging the comp

This post is going to describe what a group and a set is in Tableau and how to use them in your visualization. What is a Group in Tableau? A Group, as the name suggests, is a combination of more than one element of a dimension/measure. Once you combine multiple elements of a dimension to form a group, the meta data changes and all the elements of the group are treated as a single entity. Lets understand this with an example: Suppose I have data for multiple startups, no of em

Hi all smarty hats! Today I am going to show the use of Groups and Sets in Tableau and make another great Viz. In this Viz, I am going to show you a way to suggest best Startup out of 1000 startups to invest for according to the following 3 metrics: 1) High Revenue, 2) Low Expenses, 3) Top Growth. We will only consider the metrics belonging to year 2015. We will start with a Scatter Plot. By dragging Revenue and Expenses on rows and columns shelves and then deselecting the

One of the major areas of application of Predictive Analytics is in predicting and optimizing the time at which Maintenance of a machine should be performed. If done right, this could potentially save thousands of dollars by predicting the right time at which a high performing machine (machines which literally run round the clock for 365 days a year) could break if maintenance is not done since every working minute of such machines is worth a lot of dollars lost in revenue. M

Hello Friends! It is very often when we have to work with data having some levels in it, whether it be geographical levels (country > state > city) or qualitative levels (Type A > Type A1 > Type 1) or levels on time (Year > Month > Week) or any combination. In this post, I am going to discuss about visualizing data in Tableau having multiple level of details. The Aim of this post is to create a single visualization which is able to visualize following: - For each state, it ta

Hi there, This post discuss about the Box plots, how to read them and demonstrates an instance of drawing useful insights from them. Box plot are a different kind of visualizations. Box plots are not meant for visualizing your data to novices or to the people who possibly couldn't understand the statistical concepts behind it. Hence they should not be the first choice to visualize if your audience is a common person in your company. But, if the potential stackholders are awar