Tableau / Basic: fields, models and views
Tableau — Basic: fields, models and views
Build precise artifact, grain, role, aggregation, filter and chart foundations.
What you will learn
- Distinguish authoring artifacts from hosted consumption.
- Review scales, sorting and subset labels.
Workbooks, worksheets and analytical contracts
Separate data connections, worksheets, dashboards and publication while defining the question a Tableau view must answer.
Start learningTypes, roles and discrete/continuous fields
Distinguish a field’s stored meaning, analytical role and view representation without equating every number with a measure or every dimension with blue.
Start learningRelationships, joins, unions and grain
Choose logical relationships or physical combination from the analytical grain and verify keys before trusting totals.
Start learningMarks, granularity and aggregation
Explain how dimensions and aggregations define a worksheet’s marks, counts and totals before adding visual detail.
Start learningFilters, context and order of operations
Predict the population reaching aggregation, Top N and later calculations by tracing the query pipeline.
Start learningCharts, sorting and missing data
Choose encodings and ordering that preserve meaning when categories, periods or values are absent.
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