Fixed Level of Detail Calculation: Tableau Functions

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In this video, I take on one of the most requested videos and that is level of detail calculations specifically the Fixed LOD:
Top 15 LODs j.mp/3lCvqvG
How the level of detail expressions work: j.mp/3rbAhoM
How to create level of detail expressions: j.mp/3caOuOF
0:00 Intro
0:25 The Viz Level of detail
5:15 When to use a FIXED LOD
9:11 Writing a FIXED LOD
10:54 The anatomy of a FIXED LOD
13:24 Using the FIXED LOD
18:02 Other uses cases for FIXED LODs
25:14 Summary and notes
26:20 Resources
28:09 Limitations of an LOD Share feedback and Suggestions: tableautim.canny.io/suggestions -
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[@tokio2t]

Really appreciate your content and how you present information/concepts in an easy to understand way. Keep up the fine work!

[@ducjoshnguyen]

I came for LOD knowledge and left with much more. Thank you so much Tim!

[@deeengland4216]

Thank Tim! The context you provide is SUPER helpful. I appreciate it.

[@joaquinhui2066]

You are a super clear and structured teacher! Thanks!

[@jsx0328]

Thanks for including ACTUAL EXAMPLES of how it's used. Love this.

[@fishkenorian]

thanks a lot! Actually I used tableau couple of years ago on a daily basis at work and now decided to go back to it, and your videos are on very high level and add a lot even to a daily user in the past :))

[@jasone831]

This the best explanation of LOD out there. I wish I had been able to watch this a year ago when I was trying to learn this...

[@christopherstaines-md1cy]

I have watch other videos explaining fixed LOD and yours has the best explanation. Thank you

[@TamerAgha.]

That was amazingly good! Tim, mate you are the best!

[@chao-chienchen4393]

Found this gem now, still appreciated for your gold content

[@aapbeete9761]

you r doing a great job Tim..! Keep em coming!

[@rajashekarn2000]

Most awaited video...thank you Tim !

[@oliviaml1243]

Thank you, Tim! I'm aiming to take the the Tableau Specialist Desktop Certification exam by May and these videos are a great help. I appreciate the clear editing, comments, and easy follow through. :)

[@Neutrino-xw6jl]

How did you do?

[@deepak39754]

Thank you Tim for the amazing explanation of concepts ..

[@miganooshharoutunians9735]

Truly grateful for your thorough explanations, and thoughtful presentations. You are on my KZbin Dial🙂 for Tableau questions and trainings.

[@GB-hc9kr]

Your channel is great. Thank you so much. You are a wonderful instructor.

[@Resh_Aadil_AllaboutExperience]

Thanks for detailed explanation & sources for going indepth analysis of topics

[@tz1938]

Awesome video! Thank you Tim!!

[@hetilemabunda9705]

I need to watch this at least 3 more times before I really get it but this is such a great explanation!

[@cesargonzalez4935]

Thanks you man, this topic is good to keep understanding, always.

[@sdnc99new38]

You are very clear in your explanations. Subscribe button smashed!

[@shawnhumble5685]

Really nice description and clear delivery.

[@y-lion]

Thank you so much, Tim!

[@ankitashinde1403]

Thank you so much for the great explanation; it's very helpful and elaborative.

[@tracyzarna7208]

You are amazing! Thank you so much!

[@rajatjain8348]

Superb Explanation!!

[@beabipro8544]

Love your videos very informative.

[@nafiulhaque5585]

Very good explanation. Thank you.

[@joshdee7639]

Great video man. Something about the way you and SqlBelle do videos that makes it easier to grasp.

[@desisto007]

Clear explanation, thank you so much!

[@TableauTim]

You're very welcome!

[@meetalipandey8073]

Thank for sharing..!!

[@vsagar4b38]

Excellent Videos

[@AliciaMarkoe]

Thank you 🦋

[@ArjunSingh-rn3wh]

Thank you for such informative videos. Can you please suggest from where we can practice the questions for LOD and various others?

[@danieldeleon609]

Definetely subscribed. Very detailed and clear explanations

[@GaitherStephens]

Great video, and I hope you got to watch that Line of Duty episode! 🤣🤣🤣

[@mohammedaskar4268]

thanks

[@user-cz2yu1li2q]

Hi have you used the conditional formatting of tables in different situations. Can you come out and tell me the ways

[@rameshamoily5524]

Hi Tim, this great content and i am new to tableau Do you have any videos on "calculate difference between two rows ". this is mainly required to prepare Financial statements in tableau.

[@TableauTim]

Not related to this video but you want to look for 'tableau quick table calculations' I touch on this here kzbin.info/www/bejne/bnrchIChrZmhaqs but you can just use a quick table calculation to do the difference for you see this guide: help.tableau.com/current/pro/desktop/en-us/calculations_tablecalculations_quick.htm

[@bitstop2003]

Google Datastudio doesnt have LEVEL of Detail calculation, nor Rank() function. Thanks for this video

[@derekl2882]

I have values for Jan-Dec. I want to identify the month value with the max, so I feel like I need to FIX my date parameter to ignore LOD (so it evaluates each month against the year range) but I cannot get this work. Either I am making this harder than it needs to be or Tableau is. How do I calculate the month with the highest total in that year? I.e. in Superstore data which month in the current year has the highest monthly total?

[@jiachenchristianxu965]

Hi Tim, I have a quick question-I have a calculation field which is total amount/total number of account and there is a filter A. Right now when I change the filter A both the numerator and denominator would change value. My goal is to not let the filter apply on the denominator and let it only apply on the numerator. Is there any way to do this? Any insights would be appreciated!

[@TableauTim]

You’re on the video to fix that problem. Create an LOD at each level and the filters shouldn’t affect it. Please watch the video I recommend called order of operations.

[@user-ds6jp9qo8g]

Hello! Can you tell how to show only one (last) value of "percent difference" result (quick table calculation) when we use data filter with single value. When we put data filter, it also filters the whole table and leave only one row. So, Tableau can't calculate the percent difference for only one row. The aim is to create dashboard where user will choose one date and the value of percent difference changes. Thanks!

[@TableauTim]

Tableau can do that calculation but im not clear i understand your example. Are you asking for the percent difference from a specific date?

[@kondrusharathchandra]

One quick question: How do you highlight the text with arrows and rectangle boxes. What is the tool name

[@TableauTim]

It’s in the description. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eKuxlnWXe9-IjKc

[@devanshbhardwaj5955]

hi man can you help me create a rolling cohort retention curve, also the tricky part is I want a dashboard where we can change the cohort from weekly to monthly and then roll that cohort weekly.

[@TableauTim]

What would you expect to happen if you were showing the monthly view but rolling up the weekly cohorts, the moving calculation would be average the weekly scores which is technically not quite right .

[@andrewvilliers4767]

At 18:20 I'm doing the same thing except noticing that some entries have a count of 2 (appreciate this is a year after this was first posted). I'm seeing that order ID CA-2019-123625 has two rows of product name Acco Glide Clips and two rows of Hand-Finished Solid Wood Document Frame. Each have different quantities. I can only guess it's how the data has been collected (maybe the customer added 5 Acco Glide Clips and then realised they wanted 7 in total. Instead of updating the existing one to a quantity of 7, they added another Acco Glide Clips separately to the same order with a quantity of 2).

[@TableauTim]

Different data. The data sets across different versions of Tableau are slightly different they started changing them after this video was made. I didn't know this at the time but something to be aware of.

[@Sila23Stars]

How does this work with dates and using tableau server

[@TableauTim]

It works everywhere. Server has no impact on this feature. It works exactly as you’d expect with dates. Make sure you fix at the right level of dates for example to find the first date a customer bought an item, you say fixed at the customer column, min date.

[@Sila23Stars]

@@TableauTim thank you. This only works in obtain only dates, how would it work if am trying to obtain not the second date but a user who previously scanned a specific item ID not the current user who scanned that same item ID?

[@TableauTim]

Just adapt the calculation and fix it to the item Id

[@kanikasuneja7777]

What I liked-simplicity, what I didn't like-you never showed how finally context filters helped us get the right answer

[@TableauTim]

I can’t recall the moment but apologies. Try it. See what happens. For context I don’t script my videos so occasionally I do forget small things I said I would do. If I scripted them it would take far longer, most of my videos about 95% are just me hitting record with a dataset I grabbed 20 minutes prior and sharing what I know. For more structure you’d need a course on udemy or something paid. This is free and on KZbin.

[@kanikasuneja7777]

@@TableauTim Thanks Tim...even if it's free you are really being so helpful to people like us who can't afford fancy expensive courses just to be able to learn a skill and grab a job obviously because we're jobless at that moment. So, thanks...please take the feedback positively and keep working for us.

[@TableauTim]

@@kanikasuneja7777 Thank you for that note! Appreciate the thought and time you took to reply. I can always do better and we'll get there eventually.

[@nathanthreeleaf4534]

Great explanation...I still don't get it...

[@TableauTim]

Which part? the easiets way to thnk of it is that its like making a calculation and remembering the values to use later on. You make a calculation at the level you need and then tableau remembers the values even if you do another calculation on the same sheet.

[@user-sn5py3vx9k]

you put all other Tableau videos on KZbin to shame.

[@ScissorN]

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