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Joshua N. Milligan
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Joshua N. Milligan is a Hall of Fame Tableau Zen Master and 2017 Iron Viz Global finalist. His passion is training, mentoring, and helping people gain insights and make decisions based on their data through data visualization using Tableau and data cleaning and structuring using Tableau Prep. He is a principal consultant at Teknion Data Solutions, where he has served clients in numerous industries since 2004.
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Level of detail calculations

Level of detail calculations (sometimes referred to as LOD calcs or LOD expressions) are a fourth type of calculation that allow you to perform aggregations at a specified level of detail, which may be different from the level of detail that was defined in the view. In many cases, you can then work with the resulting value at a row-level. In this way, you might think of LOD calculations as a hybrid between aggregate calculations and row-level calculations.

Level of detail syntax

Level of detail calculations follow this basic pattern of syntax:

{FIXED|INCLUDE|EXCLUDE [Dim 1],[Dim 2] : AGG([Row-Level])}

Definitions of the preceding declaration are as follows:

  • FIXED, or INCLUDE, or EXCLUDE, is a...
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Joshua N. Milligan

Joshua N. Milligan is a Hall of Fame Tableau Zen Master and 2017 Iron Viz Global finalist. His passion is training, mentoring, and helping people gain insights and make decisions based on their data through data visualization using Tableau and data cleaning and structuring using Tableau Prep. He is a principal consultant at Teknion Data Solutions, where he has served clients in numerous industries since 2004.
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