Tableau

Question 1

What are Dimensions?

Answer 1

Contain qualitative values such as names, dates, or geographical data. Dimensions are used to categorize, segment, and reveal the details in your data. You cannot do aggregations to dimensions.

Question 2

What are Measures?

Answer 2

Contain numeric, quantitative values that you can measure. Measures can be aggregated. When you drag a measure into the view, Tableau applies an aggregation to that measure (by default)

Question 3

Can you do aggregations to dimensions?

Answer 3

No, you cannot. They are qualitative values.

Question 4

Discrete Values (dimensions or measures)

Answer 4

Blue color. Treated as FINITE. Generally, discrete fields add headers to the view.

Question 5

Continuos Values (dimensions or measures)

Answer 5

Green color. Treated as an INFINITE range. Generally, continuous fields add axes to the view.

Question 6

What are the possible combinations of fields in Tableau?

Answer 6

1. Discrete Dimensions
2. Continuos Dimensions
3. Discrete Measures
4. Continuos Measures

Question 7

Which data type(s) is/are always Discrete Dimensions?

Answer 7

Boolean and Strings

Question 8

Which data type(s) can be Discrete Dimensions and Continuous Dimensions?

Answer 8

Date and Numeric

Question 9

What type of aggregation is set as default?

Answer 9

Sum