It was not that I had never seen jitters before, but I have been ignorant enough to not to use those until I saw this chart. And I really got interested in if I can do this in Tableau. In this post you will learn about jitter plots, how to create them using Tableau and when they should be used.

Problem of Eclipse in Data Visualization

It is so frustrating when you create a plot and some marks on the overlap each other and you are not able to see the marks hidden underneath. It is like 'mark-eclipse'.

Think of this: We are trying to understand relationship between cylinders in a car and miles per galon of that car. We are using famous mpg data of 398 cars. After creating a scatterplot of 398 cars, we end up with something like this: