TreeMap chart in Tableau - Tableau charts

0:00Hey it's Tim here, today I'm going to do

0:01another chart in under two minutes, today

0:03it's the tree

0:04map. Let's get stuck in. So I'm going to

0:06grab the measure that I'm using and drag it

0:08and put it on

0:09size. Note that the chart type is set to

0:11automatic, we'll come back to that at the

0:13very end. The next

0:14thing we'll do is we'll drag category onto

0:17color, this will break our tree map down

0:18into three

0:19different categories, each with its own

0:21color. I don't like the red and orange in

0:23here so I'm

0:23going to change this, select edit colors on

0:26the top right hand side, go down to another

0:28palette,

0:28let's choose purple, pink and gray, assign

0:31the palette, hit apply and boom we have our

0:33palette

0:33ready to go. Now the other thing I can do

0:36here is I can add some labels to this to

0:38make this a

0:39little bit more interesting. So I'll go

0:41ahead and drag category again onto labels

0:43and sales onto

0:44labels. You can also use the shortcut to

0:46hold a control or command on the mac and

0:49drag those

0:50things onto label again but this is

0:51perfectly fine, it works really quickly.

0:54Now the next thing

0:54we can do with this hierarchy is that we

0:56can break this down, note that the

0:58hierarchy is this product

0:59one here on the left and if I just hit the

1:01plus next to category you'll see that this

1:03tree map

1:03expands and so we can keep expanding it

1:05until we get this level of detail. We've

1:07gone three levels

1:08down into hierarchy and it looks great. Now

1:11the thing to notice here is that Tableau is

1:13sorting

1:14this tree map in the order that we've added

1:16dimensions on the left, it starts with

1:17category

1:18then subcategory then manufacturer. So if

1:21we drag manufacturer to the top it will

1:23start with

1:23manufacturer and it will rearrange our tree

1:25map and make it work a little bit better to

1:28suit the

1:28specific order that we've set up here. So

1:30if I then drag subcategory above category

1:32then the

1:32category will actually go down to the

1:34lowest level and so that's how this is

1:36working. So that's a tree

1:38map in a nutshell, really super super quick

1:40and easy. Now the one thing to bear in mind

1:42is that

1:42we've had automatic selected on the marks

1:45pane all this time. If we switch it to a

1:47square you'll see

1:49nothing changes because that is also the

1:51same type that we need for a tree map.

1:53However if you want

1:54a bubble chart switch it to a circle and

1:56there you go you have another chart for

1:58free in the

1:59two-minute video. Thanks for watching and I

2:00'll catch you in the next one.

2:01you

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