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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

Setting up manual table calculations

While it is possible to create some table calculations easily with the quick options, there are times when an off-the-shelf calculation cannot fit your needs. In this case, you need to create a manual table calculation. This is done by creating a calculated field.

As a reminder, you can create a calculated field by any one of the following three methods:

  • Go to Analysis | Create Calculated Field... in the menu bar.
  • Right-click any field in the Data pane and use the Create | Calculated Field... option.
  • Click the arrow next to the search icon in the Data pane, close to Dimensions, and use Create Calculated Field....

There, you can define your function manually and choose Default Table Calculation options once the calculation is valid. Let's go over the three main types of functions that are available to users.

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