Tableau 10 Complete Reference by Joshua N. Milligan

Author:Joshua N. Milligan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: COM089000 - COMPUTERS / Data Visualization, COM014000 - COMPUTERS / Computer Science, COM000000 - COMPUTERS / General
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Published: 2019-02-15T11:27:03+00:00

Using certain table calculations with discrete dimensions on Rows and/or Columns will cause Tableau to turn on data densification. Let's take a look at an example and how to optionally turn off the resulting densification.

Observe the difference between the following two views:

This view has 14 marks (you can see the count in the status bar), indicating that there are fourteen valid intersections of Containers and Ship Modes. Some combinations simply don't occur in the data (for example, a Jumbo Drum is never sent by Express Air).

But adding a table calculation such as Index() to Detail causes Tableau to fill in the missing intersections, as shown:

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