Bar charts are a great way to compare data across categories, or when you want to break data down into stacked bars. In Tableau, you typically create a bar chart by placing a dimension and a measure as the inner fields on the Rows and Columns shelves (or vice versa).
A bar chart uses the bar mark type. Tableau can automatically select this mark type if the data view matches one of the two types shown below and the Mark menu is set to Automatic. You can have as many fields as you like on these shelves provided a dimension and a measure are innermost.
Alternatively, you can manually select Bar from the Mark menu for any data view. Refer to id845ffa42-31fa-49bf-8ca9-477816c899de.html#i1001692 for information about this mark type.
The following examples show you how to use bar charts to explore your data: