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Tableau 2019.x Cookbook
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Tableau 2019.x Cookbook

by Dmitry Anoshin, Teodora Matic, Slaven Bogdanovic, Tania Lincoln, Dmitrii Shirokov
January 2019
Beginner to intermediate
670 pages
18h 32m
English
Packt Publishing
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How to do it...

In this section, we use UFO sighting data to make Sparklines. Open the Sparkline packaged workbook to follow along. To follow along, use nuforc_events.csv and Sparklines.twbx.

  1. To begin, move the event date to Columns and shape to Rows. Because we have several years of data, we're filtering the dataset to 2010-2016 and displaying quarters, as follows:

We use the green pill for QUARTER(Event Date) as opposed to the blue one because, in this scenario, the date is continuous rather than a discrete value. In other words, we want date to appear as a value on an axis rather than a value to be grouped.
  1. Move the measure to the
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ISBN: 9781789533385