Go ahead and open the Chapter 02 Starter.twbx workbook located in the \Learning Tableau\Chapter 02 directory and navigate to the Tableau Paradigm sheet. Take a look at the following screenshot, which was created by dropping the Region dimension on Columns and the Sales measure on Rows:
The Region field is used as a discrete (blue) field in the view, and so defines column headers. As a dimension, it defines the level of detail in the view and slices the measure such that you get one bar per region. The Sales field is a measure aggregated by summing each sale within each region. As a continuous (green) field, Sales defines an ...
