A Calculated Field is a new field in your data source. It can have any data type. You can build a calculated Measure or Dimension. To differentiate a field from the Calculated Field, each data type icon has a small equals symbol in front of it, as you can see in the following screenshot:
Let's start by learning how to create a Calculated Field.
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