Creating and managing the data model
Your Tableau Desktop Specialist Certification exam will have some questions covering the data model, but don’t worry. You do not need to be a SQL expert or have a super fine-grained understanding of this part. For this section, we will cover the necessary literacy and knowledge to answer the exam questions confidently and accurately. In the following subsections, we will cover what needs to be understood regarding Tableau’s relationship model.
What is Tableau’s data model?
The data model in Tableau is Tableau’s way of creating relationships on Tableau Desktop. It is like SQL where it’s effectively a join, but more powerful, as it can determine the data’s best fit to apply a relationship as it seeks the best way to join and blend the data based on its given parameters. Each table shows up as its own entity when working with the data but also works fluently, as the relationship is defined well. Tableau...
