Chapter 6. Calculating User-defined Fields
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Using predefined functions
- Calculating percentages
- Applying the If-Then logic
- Applying logical functions
- Showing totals
- Showing the percentage of totals
- Discretizing data
- Manipulating text
- Aggregating data
Introduction
Many a times we need to manipulate data in a certain way to generate the desired visualization or text. Tableau provides ways to calculate and create new fields, which could be used to enhance our visualization.
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