Tableau Certified Data Analyst Study Guide

Chapter 3. Analyzing Data in Tableau Desktop

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At this point, you should understand the basics of how to utilize your data fields to build data visualizations in Tableau. You should have a strong grasp of how the Columns, Rows, Filters, and Marks cards work together to help you identify trends, relationships, and outliers in your data. Now, I want to dig deeper into what is possible within the software, beyond building simple bar and line charts, and start digging into the data. In this chapter, I will explore some of the built-in functionalities of Tableau: how to manipulate your data with calculations, implement multiple axes, and group and sort your data. More importantly, I will show you a wide array of tools designed to help you more thoroughly analyze your data.

Quickly Building Basic Visualization Types

The previous chapter demonstrated what happens when you place fields regions of the Tableau interface. Dimensions placed in ...