Tableau Desktop Certified Associate: Exam Guide

Highlight tables

Highlight tables are an extension of text tables (or cross-tabs), discussed in the previous section. A highlight table is obtained by adding a field to the Marks Color shelf. They are useful for quickly seeing trends in data. For example, what if you were asked which Category and Segment of the product has more sales than Office Supplies in Consumer, but less profit? One way to solve this would be to look at all of the segments that have more sales than Office Supply in Consumer, and then look at the profits for each of those and see whether they are more or less than the profit for Office Supply in Consumer. An alternative way to look at this is to quickly bring SUM(Profit) on to the Marks Color shelf, and change the Marks ...