Tableau Tip: Creating a Connected Scatterplot

Today I had the incredible honor of helping Alberto Cairo create his very first Tableau visualization. Alberto chose to create a connected scatterplot.  Shortly thereafter on Twitter, Lynn Cherny asked:

So this post is dedicated to her question.  Here you go Lynn:

Step 1: Create the scatterplot

Step 2: Change the Mark type to Line

Step 3: Add a continuous date dimension to the Path shelf

Step 4: Add Markers to the lines via the Color shelf

Step 5: On each axis, uncheck the "Include Zero" option

Step 6: Add a dimension to the Color shelf to create additional lines