You will notice that the districts are organized in alphanumeric order and fires are only displayed in one color. To streamline the design and provide more visual clarity in the chart, we will organize the districts in order from most to least fire occurrences. To do this, hover your mouse over the Number of Fires axis until you see a symbol. Click on the symbol once to reorder the districts from greatest to least fire occurrence. Clicking the symbol a second time will reorder the districts from least to greatest fires, and clicking a third time will bring the districts back to alphabetical order. Leave the order from greatest to least fire occurrence. Your chart should now look like the one below: We now see clearly that District 8 has the highest fire occurrence out of all the districts; however, the blue color of the bars does not quite convey that we are looking at fire occurrence data, so let’s change the bars to a more intuitive color. Since we are trying to color the fire occurrence data, click on the Number of Fires field under Measures and drag the pill to the color box. Tableau Public will automatically color the data bars using a single-color gradient—however, it might not be the most intuitive color. To change the color of the gradient, click on the Color box under Marks, then click Edit Colors. From the Palette drop-down list, select a red or orange color to go with the fire data theme. Congratulations, you just created your first chart in Tableau! Your final chart should look like the one below: Step 6: Create a two-tiered bar chart Commodities – So you finished creating your first chart in Tableau—and it wasn’t nearly as painful as you thought it would be! Next, let’s create a slightly more complex chart: the two-tiered commodities map featuring oil palm and rubber yields per district. Click the New Worksheet button at the bottom to create a new Tableau Workbook sheet. You can rename the default Sheet 2 to something relevant to the dataset like Agriculture. Like the Fires chart, we want the data to be organized by the districts, so drag the Districts pill to the Columns section. Since we want to show both oil palm and rubber commodities in the same chart, drag both the Oil Palm Yield and Rubber Yield pills to the Rows section. Now you have a two-tiered chart!
You will notice that the districts are organized in alphanumeric order and fires are only displayed in one color. To streamline the design and provide more visual clarity in the chart, we will organize the districts in order from most to least fire occurrences. To do this, hover your mouse over the Number of Fires axis until you see a symbol. Click on the symbol once to reorder the districts from greatest to least fire occurrence. Clicking the symbol a second time will reorder the districts from least to greatest fires, and clicking a third time will bring the districts back to alphabetical order. Leave the order from greatest to least fire occurrence. Your chart should now look like the one below: We now see clearly that District 8 has the highest fire occurrence out of all the districts; however, the blue color of the bars does not quite convey that we are looking at fire occurrence data, so let’s change the bars to a more intuitive color. Since we are trying to color the fire occurrence data, click on the Number of Fires field under Measures and drag the pill to the color box. Tableau Public will automatically color the data bars using a single-color gradient—however, it might not be the most intuitive color. To change the color of the gradient, click on the Color box under Marks, then click Edit Colors. From the Palette drop-down list, select a red or orange color to go with the fire data theme. Congratulations, you just created your first chart in Tableau! Your final chart should look like the one below: Step 6: Create a two-tiered bar chart – Commodities So you finished creating your first chart in Tableau—and it wasn’t nearly as painful as you thought it would be! Next, let’s create a slightly more complex chart: the two-tiered commodities map featuring oil palm and rubber yields per district. Click the New Worksheet button at the bottom to create a new Tableau Workbook sheet. You can rename the default Sheet 2 to something relevant to the dataset like Agriculture. Like the Fires chart, we want the data to be organized by the districts, so drag the Districts pill to the Columns section. Since we want to show both oil palm and rubber commodities in the same chart, drag both the Oil Palm Yield and Rubber Yield pills to the Rows section. Now you have a two-tiered chart!