From the course: Cleaning, Transforming and Prepping Your Data With Tableau Prep
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Solution 2: Exploring the data - Tableau Tutorial
From the course: Cleaning, Transforming and Prepping Your Data With Tableau Prep
Solution 2: Exploring the data
- For the answers to this challenge, we're going to explore this data set. This is the same we created in exercise one. First, we need to look at the clean set. So the first question is, what is our total number of flights in our data set? In this data set, we have one row per flight. So, the total number of flights is total number of rows. And that's shown here at the top of the preview pane. So we can see we have 356,439 flights in this data set. Next, we want to know, what is the most common range of distances that have flown? For that, we're going to look at the distance column. And we can see that we have the distribution of our flights, and the largest bar is the range from 250 to 500 miles. So that is the most common range of distances. Next, what is the actual most common distance? For this, we need to look at the detail of the data, not the summary. For that we click on the three dots and go to detail. Now we need to sort this by highest to lowest, and we can see the most…
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