Discovering genres with treemaps
The basic charts are easy to produce using any spreadsheet program. Where Tableau truly shines are visualizations that would require a lot of work, and with Show Me, they can be prepared in no time.
One of them, treemaps, groups categorical data and enriches it with two measures: using size and color, giving an instant idea of the largest contributors to each category. Let's see it in practice while studying the number of IMDb votes - production's measure of popularity.
If you lost progress, click on File > Open… in the upper menu and open 1_4_treemaps_chart.twbx
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This exercise is part of the course
Data Visualization in Tableau
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