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Mastering Tableau 2019.1

You're reading from   Mastering Tableau 2019.1 An expert guide to implementing advanced business intelligence and analytics with Tableau 2019.1

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2019
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ISBN-13 9781789533880
Length 558 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Marleen Meier Marleen Meier
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David Baldwin David Baldwin
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Tableau Concepts, Basics FREE CHAPTER
2. Getting Up to Speed - A Review of the Basics 3. All About Data - Getting Your Data Ready 4. Tableau Prep 5. All About Data - Joins, Blends, and Data Structures 6. All About Data - Data Densification, Cubes, and Big Data 7. Table Calculations 8. Level of Detail Calculations 9. Section 2: Advanced Calculations, Mapping, Visualizations
10. Beyond the Basic Chart Types 11. Mapping 12. Tableau for Presentations 13. Visualization Best Practices and Dashboard Design 14. Advanced Analytics 15. Improving Performance 16. Section 3: Connecting Tableau to R, Python, and Matlab
17. Interacting with Tableau Server 18. Programming Tool Integration 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Exercise: materialized calculations

Follow along the exercise steps:

  1. In Tableau, select New > New to create a new workbook.
  2. In the new workbook, select Data > New Data Source and connect to the Sample Superstore dataset located in My Tableau Repository/Datasources.
  3. Connect to the Orders worksheet.
  4. Create the following parameters:

Parameter

Name

Select Sufficient Profit Ratio

Data Type

Float

Allowable Values

Range

Min/Max

0.25 - 0.5

Step Size

0.01

  1. Create the following calculated fields:

Name

Calculation

Profit Ratio

SUM([Profit])/SUM([Sales])   

This Year's Profit

IF [Profit Ratio] > [Select   Sufficient Profit Ratio] THEN "Sufficient Profit" END   

Window Sum

WINDOW_SUM(SUM([Sales]))   

Profitable?

[Profit] > 0   
  1. Right-click on the data source and select Extract data.
  2. Click the...
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