There continues to be strong interest in my recent visualization, Bar Hopping: Theme and Variations on a Bar Chart. This week on LinkedIn, Steve Adams saw the post and asked about building another variation of a bar chart in Tableau. He was struggling with trying to reproduce overlapping bars. Normally, I would suggest we avoid these types of visualizations. Overlapping bars can make the comparisons harder to see and a bar with a target line would be a much better choice. However, this visualization is apparently a requirement to be compliant with the International Business Communication Standards (IBCS), so it is necessary for Steve to be able to reproduce this
in Tableau.
How to Build an Overlapping Bar Chart in Tableau By Jeffrey Shaffer
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