Tableau

Question 1

Describes information

Answer 1

Qualitative
Categorical variable

Ex:
Gender
Name
State

Question 2

Something that can be measured/counted

Answer 2

Quantitative

Question 3

Can only take specific values

Answer 3

of apples

Discrete

Ex:
Shoe size
3 apples

FIXED #
Whole #

Question 4

Can take any value

Answer 4

Continuous

Ex:
Height
Weight
Temperature
Length

Variable # / range
Decimal

Question 5

Name of the important folder in Tableau Desktop

Answer 5

My Tableau Repository

Data Sources .tds (Tableau Data Source)
.tde (Tableau Data Extract)
- New version of .tde is “.hyper”
.twb (Tableau Workbook)
.twbx (Tableau Package to Workbook)

Question 6

Where can My Tableau Repository be found?

Answer 6

Documents (Mac) or My Documents (Windows)

Question 7

When pulling in a data set (Excel data, for example), what does Tableau assign to data in columns?

Answer 7

Role (Dimensions, measures)
Type (Data type/data model)

Question 8

Usually, you will use all of your numeric data as a ________

Answer 8

Measure

Question 9

Qualitative data will be assigned as a ___________

Answer 9

Dimension

Question 10

Numeric/Quantitative = _______
Categorical/Qualitative = __________

Answer 10

N/Q = Measures
C/Q = Dimensions

Question 11

If the data is categorized as a “string” it will likely be given the role of _________.

Answer 11

Dimension