Tableau for Business Users: Learn to Automate and Simplify Dashboards for Better Decision Making

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4. The Crux of Tableau

Shankar Arul¹  

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Montreuil, France

 

By now, you should have a fair understanding of how to import data into Tableau and ensure that the data types have been properly inferred. You should also know the basic semantics of converting business questions into the language of data analytics. Now that the foundation is set, it’s time to look at the crux of Tableau—the four building blocks that create and refine your data visualizations.

4.1 Dimensions, Measures, and Aggregations

You know what dimensions, measures, and aggregations mean in the context of data analytics. ...