Data properties

Connecting Data in Tableau

Sara Billen

Curriculum Manager, DataCamp

Managing data

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Dimension/measure assignments
Column name/alias changes
Data types changes
Default properties assignments

Dimension vs. measures

Dimensions

Qualitative values
E.g., names, dates, geographical data

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Measures

Numeric/quantitative values
E.g., price, duration, age

Column names and aliases

Change column names

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Change aliases

Data types

Data type	Example
String values	Celia
Number (integer) values	15
Date values	16-07-1993
Date and time values	18-03-2016 12:45:28 AM
Boolean values	True
Geographic values	United States
Cluster or mixed values	A mix of the above

¹ https://help.tableau.com/current/pro/desktop/en-us/maps_geographicroles.htm

Default properties

Allows the analyst to assign characteristics to be consistently shown

Aggregation
Comments
Number formatting
Color
Shape
Totals

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Connecting Data in Tableau

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