Waterfall

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Waterfall

See exactly what drives the change between a start and an end value with the Waterfall Viz Extension. This extension breaks a total down into a sequence of positive and negative steps, turning bridge analysis into a clear, story-driven visualization right inside your Tableau dashboards.

Whether you're explaining a revenue bridge, a headcount roll-forward, a profit & loss breakdown, or a budget-to-actual variance, this waterfall delivers a flexible, polished way to show how you got from one number to the next.

Why the Waterfall Extension? A single total hides the story behind it. Waterfall charts reveal it, step by step, showing which factors pushed the value up, which pulled it down, and how everything reconciles to the final result. The Waterfall Viz Extension makes that story effortless to build, with filter-reactive start and end totals, automatic running totals, and subtotals that keep even complex bridges easy to read.

Features:

• Flexible Inputs: Build your bridge from deltas (changes) or from absolute values, with start and end totals driven by filter-reactive measures
• Smart Totals & Variance: Automatic start, end, and running totals, plus a Variance bar that surfaces any gap when your steps don't reconcile to the expected end value
• Subtotals: Add subtotals after any step manually, or auto-generate them by hierarchy, each one renamable and individually toggleable
• Targets: Overlay a target as a line, a bar, or both, with custom color, width, dashed styling, and labels
• Customizable Design: Separate colors for increases, decreases, totals, subtotals, and variance, or assign a custom color per bar, plus control over bar padding, corner radius, opacity, strokes, and connector lines
• Rich Labels: Show the change or the cumulative value, formatted as value, percent, or both, with full font, alignment, and axis controls
• Interactive Capabilities: Hover tooltips and selection support let users explore the details behind every step

Bring your numbers to life with the Waterfall Viz Extension. It's ideal for anyone working with financial bridges, operational metrics, budget variances, or any dataset where understanding what changed and why is critical to making informed decisions.

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