Introduction
This chapter will cover the various methods available in Tableau Desktop for grouping values together both across and within fields. This will be followed by a description of the different filtering functionalities in Tableau, including how to configure different types, how to apply filters to multiple worksheets, and the order by which filters operate. The chapter will finish with an explanation of Tableau’s parameters and the common use cases for them.
Tableau Desktop’s great strength is the ease with which users can manipulate their data and visualize it in different ways. Tableau Desktop allows users to quickly create custom fields based on groupings of values in existing fields, all within the user interface. Filtering is as simple as dragging and dropping, but great flexibility is afforded by different types of filtering and configuring the order in which this occurs. Parameters can easily be added to any workbook as user-selected single-value variables...