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The Tableau Workshop

You're reading from   The Tableau Workshop A practical guide to the art of data visualization with Tableau

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800207653
Length 822 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Shweta Savale Shweta Savale
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Kenneth Michael Cherven Kenneth Michael Cherven
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Sumit Gupta Sumit Gupta
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Sylvester Pinto Sylvester Pinto
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JC Gillet JC Gillet
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Preface
1. Introduction: Visual Analytics with Tableau 2. Data Preparation: Using Tableau Desktop FREE CHAPTER 3. Data Preparation: Using Tableau Prep 4. Data Exploration: Comparison and Composition 5. Data Exploration: Distributions and Relationships 6. Data Exploration: Exploring Geographical Data 7. Data Analysis: Creating and Using Calculations 8. Data Analysis: Creating and Using Table Calculations 9. Data Analysis: Creating and Using Level of Details (LOD) Calculations 10. Dashboards and Storyboards 11. Tableau Interactivity: Part 1

Sets

Sets are custom-created fields used to define a subset of data based on pre-defined conditions or rules.

Think of sets as custom segments that are always binary: a data point is either in or out of the segment depending on whether the data point meets the criteria defined. Sets are created on dimensions, though your conditions can include measures if required. Sets can either be static or dynamic, and you can also combine multiple sets into one set in Tableau, which can be pretty useful, as you will learn from the following exercises. A set is identified in the Data pane by the field with a Venn diagram icon as shown here:

Figure 11.67: Venn diagram icon

Static Sets

As mentioned in the preceding section, sets can be either dynamic or static. In static sets, you define the set rules and create a fixed subset of the data, where the members of the set are not updated if the underlying data is updated with new data. For example, you create a Top City...

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