Prepare Your Data for Tableau: A Practical Guide to the Tableau Data Prep Tool

© Tim Costello, Lori Blackshear 2020

T. Costello, L. BlackshearPrepare Your Data for Tableauhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5497-4_9

9. Aggregate

Tim Costello¹  and Lori Blackshear²

(1)

Euless, TX, USA

(2)

Fort Worth, TX, USA

 

In a book full of things that are easier than you expected, none are easier than creating aggregated result sets. It’s so simple, in fact I debated even giving this topic its own chapter. There really isn’t much to do when you aggregate data, but it is something you want to think through before you do.

Why the caution? Why would it be rare to aggregate results in Prep? Simply because nine times out of ten you will want to deliver the most data possible to your analysts and let them create aggregates at design time in Tableau ...