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Hendrik Kleine is an advanced analytics leader with 15 years of experience in the analytics space, including in data architecture, engineering, and visualization. He specializes in translating vast amounts of data into easy-to-understand visual communications that provide actionable intelligence. He is an avid innovator and a listed author of multiple data-related inventions. Before COVID-19, he was a speaker at the most recent Tableau conference in San Francisco.
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Determining granularity

One key consideration that is often overlooked is determining the granularity of the data that's needed. For example, when working with geographic data, you may have values for continent, region, country, state, city, ZIP code, street, and so on. But if you're only going to report on country data, you may not need all those other dimensions. Or perhaps you are processing order data; you may want to consider whether you need the details for each individual line item in each individual order – maybe your analysis will be fine with just the total order amount per day. In this recipe, we'll look at a quick method to help reveal the data actually in use in a Tableau Desktop visualization.

Getting ready

To follow along with this recipe, download the Sample Files 4.1 folder from this book's GitHub repository.

How to do it…

Start by opening the Superstore.tflx flow from the Sample Files 4.1 folder in Tableau Prep, then...

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