Hands-on – a first simple Join 

Enough for the theory, let's create a simple Join between the Orders and People tables from Sample - Superstore. Before we start, let's see what those tables contain:

  • Orders is the main table (the left one). We already used it in Chapter 3, A First Dashboard and Exploration, and it contains the profit.
  • People is a table that contains only four lines and two columns. It associates a region with a person.

Our goal is to create a Data Source that allows us to look at the profit ( which exists only in the Orders table) by person (which exists only in the People table).

Open Tableau and follow these instructions:

  1. Connect to the Sample-Superstore Excel file in your Tableau repository (use the Connecting to data ...

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