In Chapter 1, Getting Started with Tableau, we encountered filters and learned how to implement basic ones. Filters allow us to use just part of the rows in a dataset, and this basic principle is common to all the filters we will be working with.
However, Tableau's filtering capabilities extend far beyond the basic filtering you have learned so far. In this chapter, you will become comfortable with implementing top N filters, measure filters, different kinds of date filters, table calculation filters, and action filters.
In this chapter, we will mostly be using the Winery.csv dataset, originally found on Kaggle.com. It contains data on wines—which winery they belong to, which province they originate from, number of points, price of the wine, and the name of the wine taster who rated them, among other details.
In the two recipes dealing with date filters...
