Tableau

What types of metadata are stored in a Tableau data source .tds file?

- data source type, default feild properties, connection information: DB server address port

to build a scatterplot, you need at least how many measures?

2

to display data that has both negative and positive quantitative values. Tableau will display marks using...

Diverging palettes

Which Tableau option would you use to distinguish marks (single data points) and call out their position on the X/Y axis in the view?

Drop Lines

What are the two methods Tableau uses to determine seasonality in forecasting?

Temporal or non-temporal

Bins can be used for a continuous measure.

True

For any aggregate calculation, it is true or false that you cannot combine an aggregated value and disaggregated value?

True

When would be the best time to use data blending rather than join?

When you need to avoid data duplication without losing unrelated data.

_____ create headers in visualization, you most likely use:

a dimension

What does a highlight table do?

allows a conditional formatting which lets you compare a column or row with rest of the table.

What are reasons to combine views into a dashboard?

analyze multiple views at the same time, arrive at data insights faster, use views to filter other views

if you are to compare measures that have the same scale and unit of measurement, then you need to create

blended axis chart, if it is a different scale, use dual axis

How do you get a measure so that it automatically aggregates to an average instead of a sum?

click the field in the Data Pane and select Default Properties then aggregation to change it.

when using a bar chart with a dimension on the columns shelf and a measure on the rows shelf, how can you make a stacked bar chart

drag another dimension to color on the marks card.

which of the following allows a conditional formatting which lets you compare a __ row with rest of the table?

highlight table

Which of the following types of data would most likely be represented as measures in Tableau?

quantities and numerical totals

To apply bold text formatting to rows or columns independent of each other use:

the rows tab or the columns tab on the format font pane.

Which of the following chart types uses automatically generated sizes that cannot be sized by using the marks card?

tree maps

T/F that you manually sort data using a legend

true

to improve the readability of a font in a visualization you can:

use bolding and size