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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 parameters

In the previous recipe, Creating and using sets, we created a set to divide years into the ones with above average and the ones with below average employment. We did this by hardcoding the average value in the definition of our set. But, what if we wanted to make visualizations where we can input different values ourselves, so our visualization changes dynamically when we change the value? We can easily achieve this using parameters. Let's create a set where we can dynamically change the value that defines the set.

Getting ready

We will use the Unemployment_rates_1990-2016.csv dataset, so make sure you are connected to it, and open a new blank worksheet.

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