Exploring & Analyzing Data Flashcards

Which Tableau feature lets you ask questions in plain language and returns a visualization automatically?

Answer: Ask Data

Ask Data (now Tableau Pulse/Natural Language) interprets typed plain-language questions and builds a matching visualization.

A green pill on a shelf in Tableau indicates the field is treated as what?

Answer: Continuous

Green pills represent continuous fields, which produce axes, while blue pills represent discrete fields that create headers.

To find the percent contribution of each region to total sales, which Table Calculation should you use?

Answer: Percent of Total

Percent of Total expresses each mark as a percentage of the total across the specified partition.

Which shelf would you use to animate a view across time, stepping through values frame by frame?

Answer: Pages shelf

The Pages shelf breaks a view into pages along a dimension, enabling animated playback through values.

What does a forecast in Tableau use to project future values?

Answer: Exponential smoothing models

Tableau forecasting applies exponential smoothing models to historical data to estimate future values.

When you drag a measure to the Detail property on the Marks card, what generally happens?

Answer: More marks are created without changing the axis

Adding a field to Detail increases the level of granularity, drawing more marks but not creating an axis.

Which view type is best for showing the distribution of a single continuous measure across bins?

Answer: Histogram

A histogram groups a continuous measure into bins to display its frequency distribution.