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Getting Started with Tableau 2018.x

You're reading from  Getting Started with Tableau 2018.x

Product type Book
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788838689
Pages 396 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Tristan Guillevin Tristan Guillevin
Profile icon Tristan Guillevin

Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
1. Catching Up with Tableau 2018 2. The Tableau Core 3. A First Dashboard and Exploration 4. Connect to Data and Simple Transformations 5. Build an Efficient Data Source 6. Design Insightful Visualizations - Part 1 7. Design Insightful Visualizations - Part 2 8. Create Powerful Dashboards and Stories 9. Publish and Interact in Tableau Server 10. An Introduction to Calculations 11. Analytics and Parameters 12. Advanced Data Connections 13. Deal with Security 14. How to Keep Growing Your Skills 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Create a first set of visualizations


After clicking on Sheet 1,you enter the Worksheet workplace. Here is where you create visualizations. One Worksheet answers one question.

You can also see that your data source is divided between Dimensions and Measures (please refer to Chapter 2The Tableau Core, in the Measure and Dimension section). Let's create our first visualization.

Sales and profit by sub-categories – bar chart

The first question we'll answer is: what are the product sub-categories that generate the most sales and profits? Let's find out how to do that:

  1. Double-click onSales in the Data Source. You should now see one bar. If you put the mouse over the bar, you should read Sales: 2,297,201. As a measure is always aggregated, here you can see the sum of all the sales.
  2. On the Data Source, double-click on Sub-Category. The sub-categories now split the bar. A quick look can tell you that Chairs and Phones are the best-selling products:
  1. On the toolbar, click on the Swap icon: 
    .This way it...
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