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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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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

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

Pie Chart

A pie chart is commonly used to show the distribution of a whole. Each slice will be a categorical dimension and the size of the slice will be based on how much of a whole that category has contributed to it. From this, a user can easily and instantly see which category has made the largest contribution to the whole value.

Figure 5.15 – Example of a pie chart

Figure 5.15: Example of a pie chart

Items needed to build this chart are as follows:

Color

Dimension

Angle

Measure

Marks

Pie

Table 5.12: Requirements to build a pie chart

Once the fields required have been identified, open Tableau and follow these steps to build a pie chart:

  1. From the Data pane on the left, select the dimension(s) and measure(s) needed for analysis. For Figure 5.15, Category and Quantity...
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