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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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Custom Table Calculations

Before we move on to some practical examples, let's briefly consider how you can write your own Table Calculations, instead of using Quick Table Calculations. You can see a list of available Table Calculation functions by creating a new calculation and selecting Table Calculation from the drop-down list under Functions.

For each of the examples, we'll set Compute Using | Category. This means Department will be the partition.

You can think of Table Calculations broken down into several categories. The following Table Calculations can be combined and even nested just like other functions.

Meta table functions

These are the functions that give you information about the partitioning and addressing...

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Learning Tableau 2019 - Third Edition
Published in: Mar 2019Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781788839525

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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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