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Learning Tableau 2019

You're reading from   Learning Tableau 2019 Tools for Business Intelligence, data prep, and visual analytics

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788839525
Length 504 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Joshua N. Milligan Joshua N. Milligan
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Tableau Foundations FREE CHAPTER
2. Taking Off with Tableau 3. Working with Data in Tableau 4. Venturing on to Advanced Visualizations 5. Section 2: Leveraging the Full Power of Tableau
6. Starting an Adventure with Calculations 7. Diving Deep with Table Calculations 8. Making Visualizations That Look Great and Work Well 9. Telling a Data Story with Dashboards 10. Digging Deeper - Trends, Clustering, Distributions, and Forecasting 11. Section 3: Data Prep and Structuring
12. Cleaning and Structuring Messy Data 13. Introducing Tableau Prep 14. Section 4: Advanced Techniques and Sharing with Others
15. Advanced Visualizations, Techniques, Tips, and Tricks 16. Sharing Your Data Story 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Custom Table Calculations

Before we move on to some practical examples, let's briefly consider how you can write your own Table Calculations, instead of using Quick Table Calculations. You can see a list of available Table Calculation functions by creating a new calculation and selecting Table Calculation from the drop-down list under Functions.

For each of the examples, we'll set Compute Using | Category. This means Department will be the partition.

You can think of Table Calculations broken down into several categories. The following Table Calculations can be combined and even nested just like other functions.

Meta table functions

These are the functions that give you information about the partitioning and addressing...

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