Tag Archives: lod calc

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  How to remove duplicate records in Tableau Prep

  Posted on May 23, 2018 by Joshua Milligan in All, Calculations, Data Shape & Structure, Level of Detail Calcs, Tableau Prep (Maestro), Tips and Tricks, Uncategorized.

  One of the questions that comes up quite often is “How do I remove duplicate records in Tableau Prep?” or “How do I dedup data in Tableau Prep?” Some data preparation tools have a specific feature to do this. At first glance, the first version of Tableau Prep doesn’t seem to have this feature. BUT […]

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  Extending LOD Calcs with Table Calcs

  Posted on June 2, 2015 by Joshua Milligan in All, Calculations, Level of Detail Calcs, New Features.

  I’ve been following with great interest the discussion in the Tableau community surrounding various approaches to using Level of Detail Calculations (LOD calcs) to solve various problems.  On the one hand LOD Calcs are often very easy and intuitive.  For example, it easy to determine an aggregation at any level of detail: How many unique […]

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  My Favorite Tableau 9.0 Feature

  Posted on January 14, 2015 by Joshua Milligan in All, Calculations, Level of Detail Calcs, New Features.

  Tableau 9.0 has moved from alpha to beta and I’m loving it!  There are many new features to enjoy: Improved calculation editor Ad-hoc calculations New functions (like regular expressions) Data interpreter and cleanup tools like pivot and split Drag and drop analytics Map Search New selection options (radial, lasso) Responsive tool-tips Formatting for Story Points And […]

  Post Tagged with #WholeNewLevel, 9.0, beta, level of detail, level of detail calculation, LOD, lod calc, new features
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