From the course: Tableau 10 for Data Scientists

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Filters

Filters - Tableau Tutorial

From the course: Tableau 10 for Data Scientists

Start my 1-month free trial

Filters

“

- [Narrator] One of the ways that Tableau helps us understand our data is to be able to filter the data to look for interesting values. Now the type of filter that we get, again, depends on whether it's a discrete or a continuous value. Whether it's a green or a blue pill. So let's look at how that works in practice. We'll use this scatterplot off our dashboard as an example. Now, this is showing the relationship between sales and profit for all of the states. The states are color-coded by which region they're in. The position of the mark depends on the summer sales and the summer profit. Now, there's a lot of information there and we want to filter some of this out. So, for example, let's filter on region. So, we might be interested in, say, the central and eastern regions. So, we can take Region and drop that onto the Filter card. We now get some options. We can create an ordered list. Each one of these represents one of the values in our data set. So, when we drive our discrete…

Contents