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Learning Tableau 2020

You're reading from   Learning Tableau 2020 Create effective data visualizations, build interactive visual analytics, and transform your organization

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800200364
Length 576 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Joshua N. Milligan Joshua N. Milligan
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Preface 1. Taking Off with Tableau 2. Connecting to Data in Tableau FREE CHAPTER 3. Moving Beyond Basic Visualizations 4. Starting an Adventure with Calculations and Parameters 5. Leveraging Level of Detail Calculations 6. Diving Deep with Table Calculations 7. Making Visualizations That Look Great and Work Well 8. Telling a Data Story with Dashboards 9. Visual Analytics – Trends, Clustering, Distributions, and Forecasting 10. Advanced Visualizations 11. Dynamic Dashboards 12. Exploring Mapping and Advanced Geospatial Features 13. Understanding the Tableau Data Model, Joins, and Blends 14. Structuring Messy Data to Work Well in Tableau 15. Taming Data with Tableau Prep 16. Sharing Your Data Story 17. Other Books You May Enjoy
18. Index

Example of include level of detail expressions

Include level of detail calculations can be very useful when you need to perform certain calculations at levels of detail that are lower (more detailed) than the view level of detail. Let's take a look at an example.

Average loans per member

Some members have a single loan. Some have two or three or possibly more. What if we wanted to see how many loans the average member has on a state by state basis? Let's consider how we might go about that.

We'll start with a sheet where the view level of detail is State:

Figure 5.10: The starting place for the example—a filled map by state

It would be relatively easy to visualize the average credit score or average balance per state. But what if we want to visualize the average number of loans per member for each state? While there are several possible approaches to solving this kind of problem, here we'll consider using the following level of detail...

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