Learning Tableau 2019 - Third Edition

Tall data

Tall data describes a structure in which each distinct measure in a row is contained in a single column. Tall data often results in more rows and fewer columns.

Consider the following table, which represents the same data as earlier, but in a tall structure:

Country Name	Year	Population
Afghanistan	1960	8,774,440
Afghanistan	1961	8,953,544
Afghanistan	1962	9,141,783
Afghanistan	1963	9,339,507
Afghanistan	1964	9,547,131
Australia	1960	10,276,477
Australia	1961	10,483,000
Australia	1962	10,742,000
Australia	1963	10,950,000
Australia	1964	11,167,000

Now, we have more rows (a row for each year for each country). Individual years are no longer ...