A scatter plot in Tableau is a visual analytics tool used to study the relationship between two numerical measures by representing each data point as a dot on a graph, making it easy to discover trends, correlations, clusters and outliers within large datasets.
- Shows the relationship between two or more measures
- Helps in identifying trends and correlations
- Useful for detecting outliers and unusual data points
- Can be enhanced with color, size and labels in Tableau
- Supports better data-driven insights and comparisons
It is widely used in business and data analysis to compare variables like sales vs profit or cost vs revenue and to understand how one factor affects another in a clear, visual way.
Implementation
Dataset used in the given examples is Dataset.
For this, we have to follow some steps:
- Open the Tableau tool and connect a dataset to it.
- Drag and drop the one sheet of the connected dataset.
- Click on sheet1 to open the Tableau worksheet.
- On clicking Sheet1, you will get the whole dataset attributes on the left side and a worksheet for work.
Example 1: To draw a scatter plot, you have to select a minimum of two attributes (one in row and one in column) by drag and drop then select the chart option as scatter plot.
Example 2: This example is also drawn similar to above example 1 with some extra marks and which is explained in steps given below :
- Select the Discount, profit with shipping cost and Sales fields as column and row respectively.
- Select the chart type scatter plot.
- Apply marks by color of state.
- Apply marks by details of column values.
- Apply filter of column values.
Example 3: This example is also drawn similar to above example 1 with some extra marks and which is explained in steps given below :
- Select the Discount with profit and Sales fields as column and row respectively.
- Select the chart type scatter plot.
- Apply marks by color of market.
