How to realize an alternative Design of Bullet Graphs in Tableau
The recent posts suggested an Alternative Design of Bullet Graphs and an interactive version of a Bullet Graph. Both articles provided example workbooks in Microsoft Excel.
These posts included three variations of the well known standard design of Bullet Graphs described in Stephen Few’s design specifications: no qualitative background areas (e.g. poor, satisfactory, good), data labels for actual and target as well as the visualization of the gap (target minus actual) with a data label and a span line to put the gap label into context, i.e. a thin line between actual bar and target line with arrows at the beginning and the end.
How would this alternative design of a Bullet Graph look like in Tableau?
Well, truth be told, I never managed to create an exact replica of my Excel implementation in Tableau. The Excel version is using error bars to display the span line of the gap. A comparable feature is not available in Tableau, but you can still realize the alternative design of Bullet Graphs in Tableau coming close to the Excel implementation.
Today’s post presents a short description of how to realize my alternative design of Bullet Graphs on Tableau Public including the option to download the Tableau workbooks.