Tableau- How to create a variable width Bar Chart

Tableau is all about creating unique and beautiful charts. Sometimes the bar chart looks naive and not so attractive.

Today we will try to create a Bar chart with different width size of each bars.

For that you can use sample superstore data or any other data source.

First step is to create a calculation = RUNNING_SUM(SUM([Sales]))-SUM([Sales])

We will now build our worksheet:

• Change the Mark Type to Bar
• Drag Sub-Category onto the Color Mark
• Drag Total Sales onto the Columns Shelf
  • Right-click on this pill, go to Compute Using and select Sub-Category
• Drag Profit onto the Rows Shelf

It will look like below-

Now, we will make some adjustments:

• Drag Sales onto the Size Mark
• Click on the Size Mark
  • Select Fixed
  • Select Alignment to Left

Now finally your dashboard is ready.

Hope it helps. Happy Learning!