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Tableau Cookbook - Recipes for Data Visualization

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Product type Book
Published in Dec 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784395513
Pages 504 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Shweta Sankhe-Savale Shweta Sankhe-Savale
Profile icon Shweta Sankhe-Savale

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Tableau Cookbook – Recipes for Data Visualization
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
1. Keep Calm and Say Hello to Tableau 2. Ready to Build Some Charts? Show Me! 3. Hungry for More Charts? Dig In! 4. Slice and Dice – Grouping, Sorting, and Filtering Data 5. Adding Flavor – Creating Calculated Fields 6. Serve It on a Dashboard! 7. The Right MIX – Blending Multiple Data Sources 8. Garnish with Reference Lines, Trends, Forecasting, and Clustering 9. Bon Appétit! Tell a Story and Share It with others 10. Formatting in Tableau for Desserts Index

Formatting within a worksheet


In the preceding recipe, we saw a quick option for formatting across the entire workbook, which was great. However, there can be situations where we need some specific formatting within a particular worksheet. Let us see the following recipe to see how we can do formatting within a particular worksheet.

Getting ready

We will continue working in our existing My first Tableau Workbook workbook and use the already connected CoffeeChain Query (Sample - Coffee Chain) data source. Let us see how this is done.

How to do it…

  1. Let us create a new sheet and rename it as Formatting within a Worksheet.

  2. Next, let us make sure that we select the CoffeeChain Query (Sample - Coffee Chain) data source from the Data pane. Following this, we will create a text table by dragging the Product Type field from the Dimensions pane and dropping it into the Columns shelf, followed by dragging the Market Size field from the Dimensions pane and dropping it into the Rows shelf. Next, we will drag...

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