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Published inDec 2016
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ISBN-139781784395513
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Shweta Sankhe-Savale
Shweta Sankhe-Savale
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Shweta Sankhe-Savale

Shweta Sankhe-Savale is the Co-founder and Head of Client Engagements at Syvylyze Analytics (pronounced as "civilize"), a boutique business analytics firm specializing in visual analytics. Shweta is a Tableau Desktop Qualified Associate and a Tableau Accredited Trainer. Being one of the leading experts on Tableau in India, Shweta has translated her experience and expertise into successfully rendering analytics and data visualization services for numerous clients across a wide range of industry verticals. She has taken up numerous training as well as consulting assignments for customers across various sectors like BFSI, FMCG, Retail, E-commerce, Consulting & Professional Services, Manufacturing, Healthcare & Pharma, ITeS etc. She even had the privilege of working with some of the renowned Government and UN agencies as well. Combining her ability to breakdown complex concepts, with her expertise on Tableau's visual analytics platforms, Shweta has successfully trained over a 1300+ participants from 85+ companies.
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Understanding and using Unions


So far we have understood how Joins and Data Blending work. However, when we use Joins or blending, we end up appending columns from one table to another. Now imagine a situation where we need to append rows from one table to another. So, for example, imagine having separate tables for each quarter; each table contains the same information but only for the relevant quarter. Now if we wish to look at the performance of the entire year, then we will need the data from all these separate quarter tables. In this case, we will use the Union functionality. Let's see how we can do Unions in Tableau in the following recipe.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will download the Excel file named Union data.xlsx that has been uploaded on the following link:

https://1drv.ms/f/s!Av5QCoyLTBpnhkx2T7tGFlMQ32MR

We will download this file and save it to the Documents\My Tableau Repository\Datasources\Tableau Cookbook data folder. We will continue using the same workbook, My first...

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Shweta Sankhe-Savale

Shweta Sankhe-Savale is the Co-founder and Head of Client Engagements at Syvylyze Analytics (pronounced as "civilize"), a boutique business analytics firm specializing in visual analytics. Shweta is a Tableau Desktop Qualified Associate and a Tableau Accredited Trainer. Being one of the leading experts on Tableau in India, Shweta has translated her experience and expertise into successfully rendering analytics and data visualization services for numerous clients across a wide range of industry verticals. She has taken up numerous training as well as consulting assignments for customers across various sectors like BFSI, FMCG, Retail, E-commerce, Consulting & Professional Services, Manufacturing, Healthcare & Pharma, ITeS etc. She even had the privilege of working with some of the renowned Government and UN agencies as well. Combining her ability to breakdown complex concepts, with her expertise on Tableau's visual analytics platforms, Shweta has successfully trained over a 1300+ participants from 85+ companies.
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