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Tableau Desktop Certified Associate: Exam Guide

You're reading from   Tableau Desktop Certified Associate: Exam Guide Develop your Tableau skills and prepare for Tableau certification with tips from industry experts

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838984137
Length 370 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Getting Started with Tableau
2. Building Your Data Model FREE CHAPTER 3. Section 2: Answering Questions with Data
4. Working with Worksheets 5. Analyzing Data Using Charts 6. Visualizing Geographic Data 7. Understanding Simple Calculations in Tableau 8. Section 3: Advanced Tableau
9. Tableau Table Calculations 10. Level of Detail Expressions 11. Leveraging Analytics Capabilities 12. Building Your Dashboards 13. Mock Test A + B (Assessment) 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating calculations

To create a calculation, click on Analysis | Create Calculated Field. Alternatively, you can scroll to the end of dimensions/measures tabs and right-click in the white space there.

You should see the following calculations window:

The top of the window, where it says Calculation1, is where you enter the name of your calculated field. The blank area underneath is where you enter your calculation. To the right side, you have a list of all of the available functions you can use and their syntax to quickly help you out. The tiny triangle icon to the right of the calculation editor can be used to toggle the functions window in/out.

Let's create a very simple calculation to see what our total profit would be if the average profit increased four times, and name this calculation 4x Profit, as shown in the following screenshot:

You will see, at the bottom of...

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