For today, we will be looking at how to do year-over-year comparisons avoiding one of the most annoying effects when creating such a comparison out of the box. Using sample superstore, assume you want to compare two years and their difference. Your initial build will look like this: Next, you will be adding a quick … Continue reading How to do Year-over-Year comparisons in Tableau || Let’s have a (word about) date(s) (2/6)
Category: order of operations
Changing date granularity based on filter (!) selection
For today I have an interesting one. Let's assume we are faced with a request where the circumstances allow you to show a maximum of twelve bars in your chart. Reason isn't relevant, let's just stick with that as a prerequisite. At the same time, you are tasked to provide the most conclusive yet granular … Continue reading Changing date granularity based on filter (!) selection
A bit about the order of operations – Part 2
Here is the second and concluding part of the mini series on diving into the order of operations based on workout-wednesday 2022 week 15 challenge by Erica Hughes. In Part 1 we rebuilt the solution that was in the challenge but this time our aim is to avoid using hard-encoding the maximum date or storing … Continue reading A bit about the order of operations – Part 2
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