Tableau Floor Plan Heat Map

In tableau you can create a chart using the density mark by placing at least one continuous measure on the columns shelf and at least one dimension or measure on the rows shelf or vice versa and then adding a field to the marks card.

Tableau floor plan heat map. Different scenarios in a business process can be addressed using tableau heat map as the number of products which are above expectation or number of products which have fallen short. Tableau creates a heatmap by grouping overlaying marks and color coding them based on the number of marks in the group. These types of maps are called heatmaps or density map. Heat maps in the tableau can be created with multiple dimension members along with measured values.

In this way we create a heat map or density heat map in tableau. We can see all the relevant details on the text label. Tableau is used for displaying data with a different representation of colors. Create tableau heat map.

To see more details of the data points in the map hover your cursor on the density points. Density maps help you identify locations with greater or fewer numbers of data points. Since the months will create columns we know that we should put the month of order date dimension on the columns shelf. Create final tableau heat map.

We would like the months in this analysis to be listed along the top of the view. First drag and drop the colors group which we created in tableau grouping article from dimension region to columns shelf and country name from dimension region to rows shelf. You can create maps in tableau to reveal the patterns or relative concentrations that might otherwise be hidden due to an overlapping mark on a map. In this example we are going to create a tableau heat map on the matrix report or cross tab report.