Tag Archives: Table Calc

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  Latest Snapshot in Tableau and Maestro

  Posted on February 1, 2018 by Joshua Milligan in All, Calculations, Data Blending & Joining, Data Shape & Structure, Level of Detail Calcs, Tableau Prep (Maestro).

  Often, you’ll have data that looks something like this:   Every day, there are new records for projects that give the latest status and count of hours used.  Often a project spans multiple days and the status can change and count of hours might go up.  But if I want to get the most recent […]

  Post Tagged with Data Flow, dedup, duplicate data, Latest Record, Latest Snapshot, level of detail, LOD, Most Recent Record, Project Maestro, Table Calc, Tableau Prep
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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 […]

  Post Tagged with Calculations, level of detail, LOD, lod calc, Max, Min, Table Calc, Table Calculations
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