Visualizing dates and times

In your analysis, you will often want to understand when something happened. You'll ask questions like the following:

• When did we gain the most new customers?
• What times of day have the highest call volume?
• What kinds of seasonal trends do we see in sales and profit?

Fortunately, Tableau makes this kind of visual discovery and analysis easy.

Date parts, date values, and exact dates

When you are connected to a flat file, relational, or extracted data source, Tableau provides a robust built-in date hierarchy for any date field.

Cubes/OLAP connections do not allow for Tableau hierarchies. You will want to ensure that all date hierarchies and date values you need are defined in the cube.

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