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Learning Tableau 2022 - Fifth Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Aug 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801072328
Pages 568 pages
Edition 5th Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Joshua N. Milligan Joshua N. Milligan
Profile icon Joshua N. Milligan

Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface 1. Taking Off with Tableau 2. Connecting to Data in Tableau 3. Moving Beyond Basic Visualizations 4. Starting an Adventure with Calculations and Parameters 5. Leveraging Level of Detail Calculations 6. Diving Deep with Table Calculations 7. Making Visualizations that Look Great and Work Well 8. Telling a Data Story with Dashboards 9. Visual Analytics: Trends, Clustering, Distributions, and Forecasting 10. Advanced Visualizations 11. Dynamic Dashboards 12. Exploring Mapping and Advanced Geospatial Features 13. Integrating Advanced Features: Extensions, Scripts, and AI 14. Understanding the Tableau Data Model, Joins, and Blends 15. Structuring Messy Data to Work Well in Tableau 16. Taming Data with Tableau Prep 17. Sharing Your Data Story 18. Other Books You May Enjoy
19. Index

Practical examples of calculations and parameters

Let’s turn our attention to some practical examples of row-level and aggregate calculations. The goal is to learn and understand some of what is possible with calculations. You will be able to build on these examples as you embark on your analysis and visualization journey.

A great place to find help and suggestions for calculations is the official Tableau forums at https://community.tableau.com/s/explore-forums.

Fixing data issues

Often, data is not entirely clean. That is, it has problems that need to be corrected before meaningful analysis can be accomplished. For example, dates may be incorrectly formatted, or fields may contain a mix of numeric values and character codes that need to be separated into multiple fields. Calculated fields can often be used to fix these kinds of issues.

We’ll consider using Tableau Prep—a tool designed to shape and cleanse data—in Chapter...

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