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Tableau Certified Data Analyst Certification Guide

You're reading from   Tableau Certified Data Analyst Certification Guide Ace the Tableau Data Analyst certification exam with expert guidance and practice material

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803243467
Length 462 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Daisy Jones Daisy Jones
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Preface 1. Chapter 1: Connecting to Data FREE CHAPTER 2. Chapter 2: Transforming Data 3. Chapter 3: Calculations 4. Chapter 4: Grouping and Filtering 5. Chapter 5: Charts 6. Chapter 6: Dashboards 7. Chapter 7: Formatting 8. Chapter 8: Publishing and Managing Content 9. Chapter 9: Accessing the Online Practice Resources 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Relationships

Relationships are a way to combine tables together on Tableau, side by side, on a common field(s). However, instead of creating a fixed large table that merges the two data sources, the tables are kept separate at their individual level of detail and joins are created automatically based on the fields used in the view.

Relationships are more flexible than joins as only the relationship (similar to a join clause) has to be configured. A join type does not need to be selected because what is included or excluded from the data depends on the fields used in the view. The fact that relationships keep tables distinct means no data is lost and that tables can be at different levels of aggregation because they are not physically joined, so there is no chance of data duplication. The aggregation of measures and the joins required are all calculated by Tableau; the user only needs to define the relationship that connects the tables.

To create a relationship in Tableau, drag...

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