Introduction

In this chapter, you will explore your options in creating reports/dashboards in Tableau, which allows you to arrange your data or report in a more comprehensible manner for your stakeholders/audience. Previous chapters have focused a lot on creating calculated fields, table calculations, and advanced calculations such as level of detail calculations. These types of calculations can help you go a long way in achieving desired results/views. However, you can also explore other ways of arranging, sorting, or grouping your data, adding another layer of interactivity to your reports, which in turn helps improve the ease of use of reports. This chapter will dive deeper into the order of operations, filters, and sets and parameters in Tableau from a conceptual as well as a practical perspective and discuss how to make the best use of these features in your reports/dashboards. In this chapter, you will review how to group data and hierarchy use cases and consider an interesting...