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Figure 2-5. Tableau's default interpretation of the boroughs table
By default, Tableau interprets
Borough
as a string (as indicated by the blue
Abc
to the left of
the field name);
County
and
State
as geographic data types (as indicated by the blue globes
next to these field names); and
Population
,
Area sq-mi
, and
Year
as continuous measures
(as indicated by the green
#
to the left of these field names).
Notice that a few other fields appear in italics in the Dimensions and Measures areas. These
fields aren't included in the originial table, but are rather generated by Tableau. The gener-
ated dimensions include:
Measure Names
This field is a string type that provides a list of all of the names of the fields in the Meas-
ures section (in this case,
Area sq-mi
,
Population
,
Year
, and
Number of Records
).
The generated measures include:
