Tableau QT: Rounded Bar Charts

This is a Quick Tip on how to build a Rounded Bar Charts in Tableau, so less reading and more jumping in. We are going to spend 5 minutes or less building our Rounded Bar Charts in Tableau.

Note: As always never choose a data visualisation type and try to fit your data into it, instead, understand your data and choose the best visualization for your data consumers.

Data

Load the following data into Tableau Desktop / Public.

Calculations

With our data set loaded into Tableau, we are going to create the following Calculated Field:

Zero

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Now that we have the Calculated Fields created, let us start building our dashboard.

Worksheet

To start building our dashboard:

• Drag Measure Name onto the Filters Shelf.
  • Untick Number of Records.
• Drag Measure Values onto Columns.
• Drag Myers Briggs onto Rows.
• Drag Myers Briggs onto Color.
• Change the Mark Type to Line.
• Drag Measure Name onto Path.

If all goes well, you should see the following:

Now adjust the cosmetics of the visualisation:

• Drag Myers Briggs onto Color.
• Remove Grid and Zero Lines.
• Add Percentage of Population to Label and format.
• Format the Percentage of Population to a one decimal percentage.
• Add Sort Order.
• Add Highlighter.

You should now see the following:

and boom, you can experiment with a variety of shapes and include quarters as well as half values. However, we are done and you can find my Visualisation on Tableau Public at https://public.tableau.com/profile/toan.hoang#!/vizhome/RoundedBarCharts_5/RoundedBarCharts

Summary

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