Gantt Chart in Tableau

A Gantt Chart in Tableau is a visualization used to display activities or tasks over time, making it easy to track project schedules, durations, and progress. Each task is shown as a horizontal bar whose length represents the time taken, helping users quickly understand timelines, overlaps and delays.

• Shows tasks along a time axis
• Displays start and end dates clearly
• Helps track project progress
• Useful for scheduling and planning
• Highlights overlaps and dependencies

Implementation

Steps to illustrateGantt Chart in Tableau:

• Open Tableau tool and connect a dataset to it.
• Drag and drop the one sheet of the connected dataset.
• Click on Sheet1 to open the Tableau worksheet.
• On clicking Sheet1, you will get the whole dataset attributes on the left side and a worksheet for work.

• To draw a Gantt chart you have to select minimum two attributes (one date attribute and one dimensions attribute) by drag and drop then select the chart option as Gantt.

Example 1

This example will help you to draw a simple Gantt Chart.

Example 2

Below example is also drawn similar to the above example with some extra features of color and hierarchy.

Example 3

This example is also drawn similar to above example 1 but drawn with different values and different features for better understandings.