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Arshad Khan, Jumpstart Tableau, 10.1007/978-1-4842-1934-8_11

11. Crosstab Display and Swapping

Arshad Khan1 

(1)Fremont, California, USA

Objective: This exercise demonstrates how to display visualization data in a crosstab format, how to swap axes so that data can be viewed from a different perspective, and how to resize a view

We start this exercise with Figure 11-1, which is based on two dimensions (Category and Order Date) and one measure (Sales).

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Figure 11-1. Visualization to be displayed in Crosstab format

  • Right-click the Sheet 1 tab, as shown in Figure 11-1, which pops up the menu tree displayed in Figure 11-2

    Figure 11-2.

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