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Tableau 2019.x Cookbook

You're reading from   Tableau 2019.x Cookbook Over 115 recipes to build end-to-end analytical solutions using Tableau

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789533385
Length 670 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Tania Lincoln Tania Lincoln
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Tableau Software 2. Data Manipulation FREE CHAPTER 3. Tableau Extracts 4. Tableau Desktop Advanced Calculations 5. Tableau Desktop Advanced Filtering 6. Building Dashboards 7. Telling a Story with Tableau 8. Tableau Visualization 9. Tableau Advanced Visualization 10. Tableau for Big Data 11. Forecasting with Tableau 12. Advanced Analytics with Tableau 13. Deploy Tableau Server 14. Tableau Troubleshooting 15. Preparing Data for Analysis with Tableau Prep 16. ETL Best Practices for Tableau 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating and using groups

Groups are a handy way to combine multiple members of a field into a new member. In the example we will be working on in this recipe, we will group individual years into decades, so that we are able to see the data on the level of decade.

Getting ready

Connect to your local copy of the Unemployment_rates_1990-2016.csv dataset, and open a new blank worksheet.

How to do it...

  1. Right-click on the Year field under Dimensions.
  1. In the drop-down menu, navigate to Create | Group…:
  1. In the Field Name field, change the name of the group to Decade...
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