Summary
In Tableau, grouping data, filtering, and enhancing user interactivity with customizable values is made easy with inbuilt functionality.
Grouping in Tableau can be done at the field level by grouping hierarchical fields into the hierarchical field type. This enhances functionality in the view, allowing users to drill up and down levels of hierarchy. Values within a field can easily be manually grouped together into a new field using Tableau group functionality, and the new field can be used in exactly the same way as the original field. Values within fields can also be defined based on conditions, resulting in a new Boolean-type field called a set. Sets can then be combined together to create more complex interlocking conditions for values within a field. Fields can also be created on numeric data by binning the values into consistent ranges, allowing users to see the distribution of values across a field.
There are a multitude of filter options available in Tableau,...