Can I plot an Area Chart in Tableau without a date field?

Question

I have a dataset that looks like this:

Project	Month 1	Month 2	Month 3
Project X	2.4	7.4	4.1
Project Y	1.6	5.4	2.2
Project Z	0.8	3.4	1.4

Those month fields are sums of hours worked on that project, that month.

I'd like to create a stacked area chart from this data that looks like this:

Is this possible in Tableau? The current limitation in my dashboard is the absence of a date dimension, even though those "Month 1", "Month 2", etc, fields, which contain the hourly sums, are effectively date dimensions.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Yes, you can achieve this by doing the following: First, pivot your data in the following way

Once your data is pivoted, just create your viz