Tableau Exploring & Analyzing Data 2

Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

Ask Data

Answer

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

Question 2

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

Accepted Answer

Continuous

Answer

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

Question 3

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

Accepted Answer

Percent of Total

Answer

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

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

Pages shelf

Answer

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

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

Exponential smoothing models

Answer

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

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