5 Tips to Improve your Bar Charts in Tableau | 5 Minute Guide

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Data Schooler Otto Richardson shows you five tips to elevate your bar charts in Tableau.

📌Timestamp
00:00 Intro
00:13 Tip 1 - Bar chart with line end
00:56 Tip 2 - Bar chart showing above or below average
01:35 Tip 3 - Compare current to previous year
02:18 Tip 4 - Add rank to a bar chart
03:40 Tip 5 - Show 100% reference line

*Note: Find the calculation that Otto uses to in Tip 2 at https://www.thedataschool.co.uk/marius-nikiforovas/windown_avg-and-how-to-highlight-bars-higher-than-average/
* Note: Learn more about top 10 calculations at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iyac35KHNFo

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🔗Links
- Want even more bar chart tips? Check this blog from Data School Global Head Coach Andy Kriebel showing ways to format bar charts: https://www.vizwiz.com/2023/07/bar-charts.html
- Want to put some of these bar chart tips into practice to cement your learning? Try this elegant bar chart Workout Wednesday challenge (a Tableau Community initiative): https://workout-wednesday.com/2019-week-23-can-you-get-creative-with-bar-charts/
- Connect with Otto on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ottorichardson/
- Find out more about Otto on The Data School site: https://www.thedataschool.co.uk/blog/otto-richardson/

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