motion charts - Tableau

Question

How to create a motion chart?

Answer 1

Motion charts can be obtained by using page shelf.

A simple motion chart can be a change in sales over different years or the growth of the sum of sales over the years.

For example to create a waterfall chart to show the running sales over months in a year- 

• Drop the Month of the date field in page and column shelf.
• SUM([Sales]) in Row shelf and add quick calculation of running total.
• AGG(-SUM([Sales])) in Size shelf.
• Select show history and select All for show history and select show marks under show history window.

Final visual would be seen as below - 

Hope it helps!

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