From the course: Hands-On Analytics Engineering Project
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Visualizing our data
From the course: Hands-On Analytics Engineering Project
Visualizing our data
- [Instructor] Now that we've connected to our data source, let's start building our first Tableau visualization. At the bottom of your window, select the tab called sheet one. Tableau will start loading your data at this point and creating an extract. This should take just a few seconds. You'll notice in the left hand navigation, the columns from our data model are visible. Our dimension columns, attributes, are shown in blue, and our measures, numerical fields, are shown in green. Our stakeholder requested that we build a line graph showing the number of orders by month after January 1st, 2020. So let's start by building that. For a line graph, we'll need a date field and a measure. Let's grab our order date field and drag it into the column section near the top. You'll see it defaults to grouping our orders by year, but we want to see our orders by month. Right Click on the order date pill and select month, May, 2015. Now we see months listed out, but for the last three years, not…
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