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Creating a visualization using Show Me

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Creating a visualization using Show Me

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- [Instructor] After you bring your data into Tableau, you can create a visualization quickly by using the Show Me feature. In this movie I will show you how to use Show Me to create a series of visualizations. My sample file is the Show Me Tableau workbook, and you can find it in the Chapter Two folder of the exercise files collection. This workbook contains a single worksheet, and you can see that I have connected to a data source that is made up of three different tables: Order Details, Products, and Property Info. What I'd like to do is to discover what types of visualizations I can create based on my data. I'll start out simply, just by looking at the contents of the Quantity field. That's down here in the Measures section. So I'll click Quantity and then at the top right corner of the screen, at the right edge of the tool bar, there is the Show Me button. I'll go ahead and click that, and when I do, Tableau displays the type of visualizations I can create. I can create a data…

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