All tagged Tableau Order of Operations
Do you struggle to get Tableau filters to work the way you want? Do FIXED expressions confuse you? Do you want Tableau to perform better?
If you want to get the most out of Tableau, you have to understand how the Order of Operations work! Check out the recording below where we cover:
Data Source vs. Extract Filters
Why Top Filters and FIXED LOD Expressions might misbehave
Context vs. Dimension Filters
Using Sets as Filters
Filtering on Table Calculations
There are three distinct methods for creating groups in Tableau. The differences and features of the differences aren’t well understood. We’ll take the time to review those three methods throughout this post. Those three methods are; header grouping, visual grouping and geographic grouping.
The first thing to understand about top filters in Tableau is where they fall in Tableau’s order of operations.
Sets and Groups are two distinct ways of creating predefined subsets of data in Tableau. While they seem similar at a high level, they have some significant differences.