What may take you a couple of hours in Excel can be done in less than 2 minutes in Tableau. Learn how to create Overlapping Bars and a Line. This is a method to visualize an Over Lapping Bar and also a line in the same graphic.
Follow these steps:
→ In Tableau Desktop, connect to your data, in our case, it is Sample Coffee Chain.
→ Drag Date to Columns.
→ Set the Date as Discrete and choose the Date value you want. ( In our case, is Quarter – Year)
→ Drag Sales on the Axis.
→ Drag Budget Sales on top of the Sales Axis.
→ Right click on the Sales and Budget Sales Axis and choose from Mark Type – Bar.
→ Drag Inventory on the right Axis.
→ Drag Measure Names on size (on the Measure Values Mark).
→ Check from Analysis – Stack Marks to be OFF.
A #skillpill video by Alina Pătulea – Data Analyst @btProvider.
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