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Adding a table calculation

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Adding a table calculation

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- [Narrator] Gathering your data into a Tableau table lets you discover important insights about your data. You can enhance your tables by adding table calculations that summarize the data you have available. These summaries provide an overview of your data and help you make decisions about sales and operations. I'll show you how to add table calculations. My sample file is the Table Calculation workbook and you can find it in the chapter four folder of your exercise files collection. I have a simple expenses visualization here, it's a text table and I see expenses broken down by each of the five categories available. And, what I'd like to do is to change those, so perhaps get a running total instead of individual values, percentage of contribution to the total and so on. To do that, I can go to the Marks card and hover the mouse pointer over the SUM(Expenses) pill and then click the down arrow. And, from the menu that appears, I'll click Add Table Calculation. Doing so displays the…

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