by Joshua Verbeek | Nov 4, 2021 | Joshua Verbeek
Level of Detail (LOD) expressions in Tableau allow you to compute values at differing levels of granularity/detail. These expressions can allow you to fine-tune your computations at lesser, greater or independent levels of granularity. This grants the user greater...
by Neil Li | Jul 4, 2021 | Neil Li, The Data School
When we see some new tricks in Tableau, most of the time, the first question pop out of our mind is: how can I do it? However, sometimes, learning how is not enough. What if we face a similar situation in which the old tricks cannot apply directly? Sometimes, the...
by Ivy Yin | Jan 11, 2020 | Ivy Yin
We learned Level of Detail (LOD) in Tableau before Christmas holiday. During the whole training, Peter, our trainer, kept strengthening the importance of ORDER OF OPERATIONS (Click for more info). Because I want to figure out what each operation represents, I did some...
by Shuchita Sharma | Jun 2, 2019 | Shuchita Sharma
While working with the Sample Superstore data set (yet again!), it was required to show the sales for the top 10 most profitable customers in the Small Business segment. I dragged ‘Customer Name’ to rows and Sales to columns and filtered the ‘Customer Name’ by ‘Top...
