Tableau
Tableau Desktop is an awesome data analysis and data visualization tool. It allows you to see your data immediately (with a few drag and drops). The “Show Me” feature is extremely helpful especially for those just starting out with Tableau. Once you drag in or double click on the dimensions and measures that you want in your analysis, you can use the Show Me feature to see the available charts that you can create by simply clicking on the chart types.
One thing you’ll notice is that some charts will be highlighted and some will appear to be more faded. The highlighted charts are the ones available for your use. This is determined by the number of measures, dimensions, bins, etc. that you have placed in your view. Each chart has a minimum specified number of dimensions, measures, bins, or other items that it needs in order to build that chart. As you hover over each view type, the description at the bottom shows the minimum requirements.
Note: Tableau is a paid software but we can use "tableau public" which is free and open source. but features are limited i.e only a few types of charts are available. link
Types of Charts
There are 24 available charts in Tableau’s Show Me feature. Let’s discuss when we should be using each of these charts and what the minimum requirements are in terms of measures and dimensions — keep scrolling down :)
Text Table (Crosstab)
Heat Map
Highlight Table
Symbol Map
Filled Map
Pie Chart
Horizontal Bar Chart
Stacked Bar Chart
Side-by-Side Bar Chart
Treemap
Circle View
Side-by-Side Circle View
Line Chart (Continuous)
Line Chart (Discrete)
Dual Line Chart
Area Chart (Continuous)
Area Chart (Discrete)
Dual Combination
Scatter Plot
Histogram
Box-and-Whisker Plot
Gantt Chart
Bullet Graph
Packed Bubbles
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