Create an Overlay Chart

Add an Overlay Chart visualization to your workbook.

To create an overlay chart, you need:
  • At least one attribute column to use as the shared Category (X-Axis)
  • One or more measure columns to display in separate layers

All layers in an overlay chart share the same Category (X-Axis) values. Each layer can use a different measure and visualization type.

  1. On your home page, hover over a workbook, click Actions, and select Open.
  2. In the Data panel, click Visualizations Visualizations pane icon.
  3. Under Bar, drag Overlay Chart Overlay Chart visualization icon to the canvas.
  4. In the Grammar pane, in the first layer, click Line and select the visualization type that you want to use.
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  5. In the Data panel, click Data Data pane icon and drag an attribute column to Category (X-Axis) in the Grammar pane.
  6. Drag a measure column to Values (Y-Axis).
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  7. Click Add Layer and select the visualization type that you want to use for the second layer.
  8. Drag a measure column to Values (Y-axis) for the new layer.
  9. Click Save.