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Getting Started with Tableau 2019.2

You're reading from   Getting Started with Tableau 2019.2 Effective data visualization and business intelligence with the new features of Tableau 2019.2

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838553067
Length 260 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Tristan Guillevin Tristan Guillevin
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Preface 1. Catching Up with Tableau 2019 FREE CHAPTER 2. The Tableau Core 3. Getting Started with Tableau Desktop 4. Connecting to Data and Simple Transformations 5. Building an Efficient Data Source 6. Design Insightful Visualizations 7. Powerful Dashboards, Stories, and Actions 8. Publishing and Interacting in Tableau Server 9. An Introduction to Calculations 10. Analytics and Parameters 11. Advanced Data Connections 12. Dealing with Security 13. How to Keep Growing Your Skills A. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Creating your first set of visualizations

After clicking on Sheet 1, you will enter the Worksheet workplace. This is where you create visualizations. Usually, one Worksheet answers one question.

Let's create our first visualization.

Sales and profit by sub-categories – bar charts

The first question is: What are the product sub-categories that generate the most sales and profits? To answer this, perform the following steps:

  1. Double-click on Sales in the Data pane under Measures. You should now see one bar. If you hover the mouse over the bar, you should read Sales: 2,297,201. As a measure is always aggregated, here, you can see the total sum of all the sales.
  2. On the Data pane, under Dimensions, double-click on Sub-Category. The sub-categories now split the bar. A quick look at this can tell you that Chairs and Phones are the best-selling products:
    Sales and profit by sub-categories – bar charts
  3. On the toolbar, click on the swap icon (Sales and profit by sub-categories – bar charts). By doing this, it's easier to read the sub-categories. We can do even better by clicking...
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