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Timeliness - Tableau Tutorial

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Timeliness

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- [Instructor] If you're already in an analyst position, then you've probably been given an aggressive deadline to get some analysis done for a key meeting. In this video, we're going to outline some tips on how you can improve your timeliness as a Tableau user. Let's go ahead and connect to the course files and connect to the time series data source. Once you've connected to the data source, let's head over to sheet one and we can start to talk about the tips. The first tip that I have for you is that you should always be using default settings. This means that you can set the settings once and then you never have to set it again. Let's walk through an example of why this can be so time saving. If we drag in in-stock percentage into the workspace, you'll see 4,947. This makes no sense. And this is because the aggregation is wrong. The aggregation, in this instance, is Some, when really the appropriate aggregation is Average. So we have an average of 97% in stock. Now, if we were to…

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