Field & Chart Types

Question 1

1 or more Dimensions
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1 or more Measures

Answer 1

Text Table

Question 2

1 or more Dimensions
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1 or 2 Measures

Answer 2

Heat Maps

Question 3

1 or more Dimensions
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1 Measure

Answer 3

Highlight Tables

Question 4

1 Geo Dimension
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0 or more Dimensions
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0 to 2 Measures

(May use spatial measure in place of geo dimension)

Answer 4

Symbol Maps

Question 5

1 Geo Dimension
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0 or more Dimensions
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0 to 1 Measure

(May use spatial measure in place of geo dimension)

Answer 5

Maps

Question 6

1 or more Dimensions
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1 or 2 Measures

Answer 6

Pie Chart

Question 7

0 or more Dimensions
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1 or more Measures

Answer 7

Horizontal Bars

Question 8

1 or more Dimensions
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1 or more Measures

Answer 8

Stacked Bars

Question 9

1 or more Dimensions
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1 or more Measures

(Requires at least 3 fields)

Answer 9

Side-by-side Bars

Question 10

1 or more Dimensions
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1 or 2 Measures

Answer 10

Treemaps

Question 11

1 or more Dimensions
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1 or more Measures

Answer 11

Circle Views

Question 12

1 or more Dimensions
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1 or more Measures

(Requires at least 3 fields)

Answer 12

Side-by-Side Circles

Question 13

1 Date
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0 or more Dimensions
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1 or more Measures

Answer 13

Lines (continuous)

Question 14

1 Date
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0 or more Dimensions
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1 or more Measures

Answer 14

Lines (discrete)

Question 15

1 Date
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0 or more Dimensions
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2 Measures

Answer 15

Dual Lines

Question 16

1 Date
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0 or more Dimensions
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1 or more Measures

Answer 16

Area Charts (continuous)

Question 17

1 Date
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0 or more Dimensions
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1 or more Measures

Answer 17

Area Charts (discrete)

Question 18

1 Date
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0 or more Dimensions
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2 Measures

Answer 18

Dual Combination

Question 19

0 or more Dimensions
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2 to 4 Measures

• used to explore the relationship between multiple measures

Answer 19

Scatter Plot

Question 20

1 Measure

Creates a bin field - Not available for all Measures

Answer 20

Histogram

Question 21

0 or more Dimensions
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1 or more Measures

(Use at least 1 dimension or disaggregate)

Answer 21

Box-and-Whisker Plot

Question 22

1 Date
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1 or more Dimensions
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0 to 2 Measures

Answer 22

Gantt

Question 23

0 or more Dimensions
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2 Measures

(Right-click the continuous axis to swap reference lines)

Answer 23

Bullet Graphs

Question 24

1 or more Dimensions
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1 or 2 Measures

Answer 24

Packed Bubbles

Question 25

• contain qualitative values (such as names, dates, or geographical data)
• can be used to categorize, segment, and reveal the details in your data
• affect the level of detail in the view

Answer 25

Dimensions

Question 26

• contain numeric, quantitative values that you can measure
• can be aggregated
• When dragged into the view, Tableau applies an aggregation (by default).

Answer 26

Measures

Question 27

• forming an unbroken whole, without interruption

- axis

Answer 27

Continuous

Question 28

• individually separate and distinct

- label

Answer 28

Discrete

Question 29

field contains the names of all measures in your data, collected into a single field with discrete values.

Answer 29

Measure Names

Question 30

field contains all the measures in your data, collected into a single field with continuous values.

Answer 30

Measure Values

Question 31

Fields that Tableau automatically creates

Answer 31

• Measure Names and Measure Values
• Number of Records
• Latitude and Longitude

Question 32

• field is an automatically generated, calculated field that is set to the number 1
• That number gets associated with each row in the data source

Answer 32

Number of Record

Question 33

• a chart that displays the shape of a distribution

- looks like a bar chart but groups values for a continuous measure into ranges, or bins.

Answer 33

Histogram