Managing data properties
Data does not always come in clean. In this section, we will go into more detail about manipulating data fields. Tableau does an excellent job of assigning field types, but there are times when it makes sense to update fields. Besides that, data does not always come in with good field names or needs aliases to work with your visualization. In this section, we will cover the necessary data properties that haven’t already been covered in other places throughout this book, such as changing default properties and reviewing data properties that can be changed.
In the following exercise, we will first look at Ship Date. The real Ship Date field comes in as a Date field, but I changed the Date field to String to provide an example of the data properties.
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To try this exercise yourself, you will be able to execute this exercise based on the following example (except that you will have to change Ship Date to String and then back to Date).
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