Which simple drag-and-drop combination in Tableau Desktop automatically produces a horizontal bar chart showing total Sales by Region when you start from a blank worksheet using the Sample Superstore data?
Drag Region to Rows, then drag Sales to Columns
Drag Sales to Rows, then drag Region to Color on the Marks card
Placing a discrete dimension on the Rows shelf and a measure on the Columns shelf tells Tableau to draw one bar for each row member, extending along the horizontal (x-axis) according to the measure's value. Dragging Region to Rows creates separate rows for each region. Dragging the Sales measure to Columns supplies the numeric axis, so Tableau's Automatic mark type becomes a horizontal bar chart. The other options place the fields in different shelves or on the Marks card, which results in vertical bars, a single aggregate mark, or another default view instead of the requested horizontal bars.
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