Section 5: Field Types & Charts Flashcards
which box is discrete and which is continuous?
purple is discrete, green is continuous
describe what you would expect to see with this set up?
what does this icon in the top navigation do?
swaps rows and columns in the view.
Describe what’s needed for horizontal bar charts
0 or more dimensions
1 or more measures
Describe what’s needed for a line chart
1 date
0 or more dimensions
1 or more measures
what would you expect to see with this setup and a line chart selection?
what would you expect to see with this setup and a line chart selection?
describe the text table that would result from the following setup
What would you expect to see with this bar chart selection
Describe what’s needed for a scatterplot
0 or more dimensions
2 to 4 measures
Describe what’s needed for a crosstab (text table)
1 or more dimensions, 1 or more measures
Describe the output of a text table with this set up?
Describe what’s needed for a treemap
One or more dimensions, one or two measures
What type of chart would Tableau Automatically display with this setup?
Tableau takes the innermost field and uses that to determine what the automatic mark should be. Since it’s a string, Tableau will generate a bar chart.
What type of chart will this setup display automatically?
Line chart, because the automatic chart is determined by the inner-most dimension on the rows & columns shelves. When it’s a date, it will be a line chart.
If you wanted to Show Title or Show Caption, which dropdown would you need to select?
Worksheet
