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INF80031_Wk2_Answers (Part1)
Importing data
Required datasets for below activities can be foound on Canvas:

1 - Navigate to the Connect to Excel.

2 - From the menu, select Data| New Data Source and select Microsoft Excel from the list of possible
connections.

3 - In the open dialog, open the Superstore.xlsx file. Tableau will open the Data Source screen. You
should see the two sheets of the Excel document listed on the left.

4 - Double-click the Orders sheet and then the Returns sheet. Tableau will prompt you with an Edit
Relationship dialog.

Your Data Source screen should look similar to the following screenshot:

Visualising Data and Time

The following is based on Hospital dataset. The following heat map is another example of using date
parts on different shelves to achieve useful analysis. This kind of visualization can be quite useful
when looking at patterns across different parts of time, such as hours in a day or weeks in a month.
Here, we are looking at how many patients were admitted by month and day:

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Another example

The ability to use various parts and values of dates and even mix and match them gives you a lot of
flexibility in creating unique and useful visualizations. For example, using the month date part for
columns and the year date part for color gives a time series that makes a visual year-over-year
comparison quite easy. The year date part has been copied to the label so that the lines can be
labeled:

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Date part field will represent a specific part of the date, such as the quarter or month. The part of the
date is used by itself and without reference to any other part of the date. This means that the date of
November 8, 1980, when used as a month date part, is simply November in the view. The November
that's selected in the view here represents all of the Novembers in the dataset, while the number of
patient visits is the total for both 2018 and 2019:

Comparing values across different dimensions

You might compare revenue to a target, or you might compare the revenue for the current year to the
previous year:

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