All tagged Tableau Totals
One of the biggest gripes about Tableau Prep is that it isn't as fast as people want. However, most people aren't leveraging the best way to improve performance; input filters!
Input filters allow you to filter the data at input ensuring that unneeded data is never loaded into and processed in Tableau Prep. This can lead to massive performance benefits.
Ready to learn how to apply input filters and numerous ways they can be configured? Check out this video!
Text tables can be overwhelming because they contain a lot of information without using many pre-attentive attributes to draw the users' attention toward areas of interest. One of the best ways to add value to a text table in Tableau is to add totals!
There are numerous types of totals you can add to a Tableau worksheet. You can add totals for Rows, Columns, and can even choose which dimension-level you want sub-totals to display at. In addition, there are some workarounds you can use to display multiple types of totals at the same time.
