Welcome back to the course that will prepare you for your tablet certified associate exam.
This section is perhaps my favorite section of the course because it covers the foundations of Tableau
and these topics are extremely important to understand.
So the things we'll be talking about include aggregation without granularity level of detail dimensions
measures discrete field continuous field.
Now the thing is that there's a lot of confusion with people staring out into tableau or when they're
preparing for the exams.
What the difference is between a discrete versus continuous fields and dimensions versus measures when
a dimension can be discrete and where it can be continuous.
When a measure can be continuous and when it can be discrete so we'll cover all those topics off so
you have absolutely no questions by the end of this section.
I wanted to point out that this is very important.
If you have any doubts rather tutorials make sure to pause reflect maybe ask questions so we can help
you out and then redo those tutorials or even redo the whole section just so that the foundations are
very clear.
Because if you get them right progressing for the rest of the course will be a piece of cake.
If you get them wrong you'll be extremely hard to go through the rest of the course and you will set
yourself up for trouble on the exam.
So make sure to get these topics right and to help you out.
We've got a very exciting dataset.
We're going to be looking at the 2018 2019 NBA season and don't worry if you don't know anything about
the NBA will cover of how exactly it works and how these teams play with each other and in our data
we're going to be looking at the performance of every single player by team that participated in that
season of the NBA.
So we'll be using our skills on dimensions measures aggregation granularity continuous discrete in order
to visualize and gain insights.
It'll be a great way to learn and have fun at the same time and find out something new about the NBA
season.
And on that note let's dive straight into it and learn the foundations of Tableau.