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Tableau 10 Complete Reference

By : Joshua N. Milligan, Tristan Guillevin
Book Image

Tableau 10 Complete Reference

By: Joshua N. Milligan, Tristan Guillevin

Overview of this book

Graphical presentation of data enables us to easily understand complex data sets. Tableau 10 Complete Reference provides easy-to-follow recipes with several use cases and real-world business scenarios to get you up and running with Tableau 10. This Learning Path begins with the history of data visualization and its importance in today's businesses. You'll also be introduced to Tableau - how to connect, clean, and analyze data in this visual analytics software. Then, you'll learn how to apply what you've learned by creating some simple calculations in Tableau and using Table Calculations to help drive greater analysis from your data. Next, you'll explore different advanced chart types in Tableau. These chart types require you to have some understanding of the Tableau interface and understand basic calculations. You’ll study in detail all dashboard techniques and best practices. A number of recipes specifically for geospatial visualization, analytics, and data preparation are also covered. Last but not least, you'll learn about the power of storytelling through the creation of interactive dashboards in Tableau. Through this Learning Path, you will gain confidence and competence to analyze and communicate data and insights more efficiently and effectively by creating compelling interactive charts, dashboards, and stories in Tableau. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • Learning Tableau 10 - Second Edition by Joshua N. Milligan • Getting Started with Tableau 2018.x by Tristan Guillevin
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
8
Deeper Analysis - Trends, Clustering, Distributions, and Forecasting
Index

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 a quick table calculation. You can see a list of available table calculation functions by creating a new calculation and selecting Table Calculation from the dropdown under Functions.

You can think of table calculations broken down into several categories, shown here. In each of the examples, we'll set Compute Using | Category, which means Department is the partition. The following table calculations can be combined and even nested, similarly to other functions:

  • Meta Table Functions: These are the functions that give you information about the partitioning and addressing. These functions also include Index, First, Last, and Size:

First gives the offset from the first row in the partition. So, the first row in each partition is 0. Last gives the offset to the last row in the partition. Size gives the size of the partition. Index, First,...