Animated Visualization

To create the below visualization in Tableau with animation based on Date, follow the steps in this article.

Visualizing Cryptocurrencies based on Average Market Capitalization

For this example, I took a cryptocurrency dataset with columns Name, Date, and Market Capitalization. You can download it from here. cryptocurrency

1. Open Tableau>Format>Animations>On.
2. Click on a New worksheet.
3. Drag the Name column from data source to Columns.
4. Drag the column AVG(Market Capitalization) in the Marks>Size on the left side of the pane.
5. Now, if you want a particular shape, you can simply drag the Name column to Shape and choose a particular shape.
6. However, if you want cryptocurrency icons, follow these steps:

a. Download cryptocurrency icon files from Google.

b. Extract the folder.

c. Go to My Tableau Repository by clicking on Tableau>File>Repository Location.

d. Go to Shapes and import the extracted file.

e. Now go to the worksheet>Shape>Select Shape Palette and select the above folder which has all the images.

f. Now, drag the Name column to Marks>Shape.

7. To finally add the animation, add the Date column to Pages in the left pane.

In the end, you will get this visualization.

Average Market Capitalization Visualization