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Discrete versus continuous

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Discrete versus continuous

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- [Voiceover] Probably the most important, fundamental concept to understanding Tableau is the difference between a green and a blue pill. What do I mean by a green and blue pill? So let's just build a quick viz. We put Segment onto rows and Sales onto columns. Tableau builds us a nice bar chart. What we notice is that when we take a value and put it on the row or column shelf, we get these colored pills. So we've now got a green pill and a blue pill. But what does that color actually refer to? A lot of people assume that it's because dimensions typically tend to have the blue icons here, and measures tend to have the green icons. So people assume that a blue pill is always a dimension, and a green is always a measure. But that's not correct. The color refers to whether it's a discrete or a continuous value. Now, understand this concept is important because everything that Tableau does is built on that difference between green and blue. Let's look at Dashboard that shows some of these…

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