Using the Show Me toolbar
by Matt Floyd, Ashley Ohmann, Ashutosh Nandeshwar, Jen Stirrup
Tableau: Creating Interactive Data Visualizations
- Tableau: Creating Interactive Data Visualizations
- Table of Contents
- Tableau: Creating Interactive Data Visualizations
- Tableau: Creating Interactive Data Visualizations
- Credits
- Preface
- 1. Module 1
- 1. A Short Dash to Dashboarding!
- 2. Summarizing Your Data for Dashboards
- 3. Interacting with Data for Dashboards
- 4. Using Dashboards to Get Results
- 5. Putting the Dash into Dashboards
- 6. Making Dashboards Relevant
- 7. Visual Best Practices
- 2. Module 2
- 1. Connecting to Data Sources
- Introduction
- Connecting to text files
- Connecting to Excel files
- Connecting to Access databases
- Connecting to a SQL Server
- Pasting from a clipboard
- Connecting to other databases
- Connecting to Windows Azure Marketplace
- Understanding dimensions and measures
- Changing data types
- Applying filters
- Merging multiple data sources
- 2. Creating Univariate Charts
- 3. Creating Bivariate Charts
- 4. Creating Multivariate Charts
- 5. Creating Maps
- 6. Calculating User-defined Fields
- 7. Customizing and Saving
- 8. Exporting and Sharing
- 9. Exploring Advanced Features
- 1. Connecting to Data Sources
- 3. Module 3
- 1. Getting Started with Tableau Public
- 2. Tableau Public Interface Features
- 3. Connecting to Data
- 4. Visualization – Tips and Types
- 5. Calculations
- 6. Level of Detail and Table Calculations
- 7. Dashboard Design and Styling
- 8. Filters and Actions
- 9. Publishing Your Work
- A. Bibliography
- Index
The Show Me toolbar is one of the most powerful features of Tableau. It removes many steps required to create a graphic and automatically determines the axis location of the variables used.
Let's recreate the histogram from an earlier recipe using the Show Me toolbar. We will use the same sample file, Sample – Superstore Sales (Excel). Open a new worksheet and select Sample – Superstore Sales (Excel) as the data source.
Once the data is loaded, perform the following steps to reproduce the histogram from an earlier recipe using the Show Me toolbar:
- If the Show Me toolbar is not visible, click on the Show Me button to make the toolbar visible.
- Click on Profit from Measures.
- While Profit from Measures is still highlighted, click on the histogram graph button from the Show Me toolbar as shown in the following screenshot:
As you can see by comparing the number of steps listed in this recipe with the number of steps listed in the earlier histogram recipe, the Show Me toolbar reduces the effort required to produce the same graphic. Similarly, you can generate various types of graphs in two clicks. The Show Me toolbar also lists the number of measures and the number of dimensions required to create a graphic. If a graphic cannot be drawn with the selected measures or dimensions, the graph button is shaded gray (disabled) to indicate unavailability of the graphic.
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