tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6248043124025283718.post5643096719223185724..comments2024-03-07T00:57:28.278-05:00Comments on Tableau Friction: Inconsistent Chart/Table FormattingChris Gerrardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01598731155784487000noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6248043124025283718.post-21845122613268004772012-11-02T19:29:37.521-04:002012-11-02T19:29:37.521-04:00This goes right back to my first comment on:
http:...This goes right back to my first comment on:<br /><a href="http://betterbizintel.blogspot.com/2012/08/tao-of-tableau-deciphering-tables-1.html" rel="nofollow">http://betterbizintel.blogspot.com/2012/08/tao-of-tableau-deciphering-tables-1.html</a><br /><br />I think I see what you are thinking, the final arrangement of marks on a canvas is similar, so why is the formatting different?<br /><br />The answer is VizQL. This is a language written by placing pills on shelves, and there are 4 key pill types, the combination of these pill types and the shelves they are on determines what Tableau will do. <br /><br />- if your change a pill from Continuous to Discrete, Tableau changes the visual display (no effect on computation)<br />- if you change a pill from aggregated to non-aggregated, then you get a different computation, and can have a impact on the visual display (effect depends on mark type, and pill arrangement)<br />- if you move pills to different shelves, creating a different combination of pill types on shelves, then you get different formatting defaults<br />- and so much more...<br /><br />Yes, there area lot of factors to go into determining exactly what Tableau will do, and yes Tableau Software is notorious for their lack of documentation on topics such as this.<br /><br />I would like to understand your viewpoint and expectations have, but what I currently see is that instead of trying to understand Tableau and VizQL's flow and working with it, you seem to expect Tableau to work the way you want and are not seeing what Tableau and VizQL are doing.<br /><br />You seem to have a different viewpoint, and combined with your experience and expectations Tableau is not doing the right thing to work with your your flow. Would you be willing to consider a different approach to data visualization, one that flows with Tableau and VizQL? Would you be willing to learn about about VizQL?<br /><br />To you this this behavior as broken (in need of a fix), and I see it as behaving exactly as expected (and hope that it does not change).<br /><br />Will you be at TCC12, specifically Jun Kim's round-table discussion on Nov 6 at 16:30?Joe Makohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15643500270169278424noreply@blogger.com