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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

Using sets in calculations


In the previous chapter, we learnt what Sets are and how to create and use them. We saw an example of Top 5 customers by Sales. When we use this set, we can either use it as IN/OUT, which is a Boolean output, and which when used in our view, will give us two In and Out headers, or we can use it as Show Members in Set, which will only give us the names of our top five customers and filter the rest of the customers.

Now, what if we don't want to filter any customer, but instead group the customers who don't belong in the top five set (that is, the Out customers) under one header called Others? So, what we essentially want to show is the names of the top five customers by sales, that is, all the In customers and the rest of the customers to be grouped as Others.

Since we already have a set that gives us the customers belonging to the top five list and which customers do not belong to that list, we will use this set and achieve our objective. This is one example of how...

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