Aggregation

Introduction to Tableau

Lis Sulmont

Content Program Manager at Duolingo

What is aggregation?

Gathering and summarizing data points for analytics

For example:

  • Summing up all sales transactions to get the quarter's total sales amount
  • Calculating the average age of a user
  • Counting the distinct customers from all the transactions
  • Finding the product with the maximum sales
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Aggregating measures

Tableau drop down for aggregating measures

  • Sum is the default aggregation on measure
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Aggregating dimensions

Tableau drop down for aggregating dimensions

  • Aggregating a dimension creates a temporary measure:

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Dataset

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Let's practice!

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