Plotting multiple lines in Tableau

Question

I read every possible forum and I couldn't find a specific answer. I'm new to Tableau and I need to perform what I thought would be a very simple task but I can't figure it out.

I need to create a chart with multiple lines plotted in the same graph. On one column, I have a timestamps in seconds (decimal). For each timestamp value, I have 4 columns associated (Temperature, Pressure, Humidity, Voltage) and I need to visualize how they trend over time. The data in Excel looks something like this (I simplified it for visualization purpose):

In Excel, it takes me less than seconds to obtain a chart that looks like this:

How can I replicate the same exact chart in Tableau? I would like someone to tell me exactly how each column should be formatted, if the data has to be a dimension or a measure and data type for each (string, number etc) and what steps to take in the chart. I would do this in Excel but the file is almost 1M rows and Excel keeps crashing.

Answer 1

1. drag & drop measure values & timestamp.

   

   EDIT - first make Timestamp a dimension instead of a measure, and make sure it remains continuous instead of discrete. So you should not see the word SUM in front of Timestamp

2. remove no. of row & timestamp from the measure values.

   

3. uncheck aggregate measure.

   

EDIT this step is not usually needed or desirable. If you do have multiple recordings per Timestamp, you will want to select the best aggregation function for each measure, perhaps AVG or MEDIAN instead of SUM

4. select line from mark and drag measurement to color