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Customizing Grand Totals – Part 1
Of all the questions on the Tableau forums, one of the more common ones is that people see the Grand Total and/or Subtotal rows – the ones created by going to the Analysis Menu then choosing...
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Customizing Grand Totals – Part 2
In Part 1 of this series, I introduced one workaround to the issue of getting Grand Totals to show a different value from the Tableau defaults, by using two worksheets – one for the detail rows and one...
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Unexpected Results: Rounding
When using Tableau with different data sources, it becomes obvious fairly quickly that there are differences in what functions are available in one data source vs. another. For example, MEDIAN() and...
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Partitioning by Table Calculations
Here’s a issue on the Tableau forums that shows up at least once per month or so: someone has a data set that they want to compute a measure over, and the measure requires table calculations. Then they...
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Preparing Data http://kb.tableausoftware.com/articles/knowledgebase/preparing-excel-files-analysis http://kb.tableausoftware.com/articles/knowledgebase/addin-reshaping-data-excel anonymizing data for...
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Table Calculations See Want to Learn Table Calculations? Here’s How for a list of posts that I recommend. From http://www.tableausoftware.com/support/forum/topic/trellis-plots comments by Joe Mako: 1....
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How to Have Sets with Your Secondary (Data Sources)
Tableau Sets can turn incredibly complicated interactions into a few mouse clicks that can reveal patterns in your data. However, if you’ve ever created a Set in a secondary data source and tried to...
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LOD Expression Remix – Finding a Dimension at a Lower Level
Last week Mark Jackson had a great post on using Tableau v9 Level of Detail expressions to find a dimension at a lower level (with an update here). In his Superstore example where there are multiple...
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