# Build Sankey Charts in Tableau Public in 30 seconds | Tableau Public Vizart Pilot

> This is content from just-tim, the data-and-analytics channel by Tim Ngwena (formerly 'Tableau Tim'). Tim has 12+ years of hands-on BI experience and covers Tableau most of all, plus Power BI, Looker, Hex, SQL and data modelling, the analytics industry, and the craft of doing the job — always tool-agnostic and honest about the trade-offs.

- **Author:** Tim Ngwena (just-tim, https://just-tim.com/about)
- **Published:** 2023-04-29
- **Format:** Video · 4 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation
- **Tools:** Tableau (public, sankey, web authoring)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/build-sankey-charts-in-tableau-public-in-30-seconds-tableau-public-vizart-pilot
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNHpEm63hT8

I show you how to build a Sankey chart in Tableau Public using the new web authoring pilot feature, available until the end of June. Using Superstore Sales data, I demonstrate the whole process in about 30 seconds, dropping dimensions onto level and a measure onto link.

## Key takeaways

- Tableau Public's web authoring has a pilot feature, available until 30 June, that adds native Sankey and Radial chart types
- To build a Sankey, switch the marks type to Sankey, then drop dimensions (category, segment, subcategory) onto the level shelf
- Drop a measure such as quantity onto the link shelf to control the width of the flows
- The resulting Sankey is fully interactive with the usual Tableau hover tooltips, no blogs or templates required
- Native chart trials appearing in the cloud web interface likely hint at a new approach to adding chart types, which may reach Tableau Desktop

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/build-sankey-charts-in-tableau-public-in-30-seconds-tableau-public-vizart-pilot

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