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 Top Tableau Questions and Answers in 2019

These questions are collected after consulting with top industry

experts in the field of Data analytics and visualization. If you want to
brush up with the Tableau basics, which I recommend you to do
before going ahead with this Tableau Interview Questions, take a
look at onlineitguru.com

The questions presented in this blog are collected based on the

opinion of tableau experts. To make it easy and understandable
format we have divided these questions into three categories such as
Basic, Experienced and Real time.

This Tableau Interview questions is divided into the following parts:

  Tableau Beginners
 Tableau Experienced
 Tableau Expert

Tableau beginners Interview questions

1. What is Tableau?
A: tableau is a Business Inetlligence Tool for visually analysing the
data. User can craete and distribute and distribute an intrative
dadhboards, which depict the trendsa and variations of the data in
the form of graph and charts.

2. What are the 5 main product offered by Tableau company?

A: Tableau offers 5 main products: Tableau Desktop, Tableau Server,

Tableau on-line, Tableau reader and Tableau Public.

(i)Tableau Desktop:

It is a self service business analytics and data visualization that

anyone can use. It translates pictures of data into optimized queries.
With tableau desktop, you can directly connect to data from your
data warehouse for live upto date data analysis. You can also
perform queries without writing a single line of code. Import all your
data into Tableau’s data engine from multiple sources & integrate
altogether by combining multiple views in a interactive dashboard.
(ii)Tableau Server:

It is more of an enterprise level Tableau software. You can publish

dashboards with Tableau Desktop and share them throughout the
organization with web-based Tableau server. It leverages fast
databases through live connections.

(iii)Tableau Online:

This is a hosted version of Tableau server which helps makes

business intelligence faster and easier than before. You can publish
Tableau dashboards with Tableau Desktop and share them with
colleagues.

(iv)Tableau Reader:It’s a free desktop application that enables you to

open and view visualizations that are built in Tableau Desktop. You
can filter, drill down data but you cannot edit or perform any kind of
interactions.

(v)Tableau Public:

This is a free Tableau software which you can use to make

visualizations with but you need to save your workbook or
worksheets in the Tableau Server which can be viewed by anyone.

3. What’s the present latest version of Tableau 2019?

A: Tableau 2019.2 takes your data analysis to the next level.
Tableau 2019.2
Explore the newest features in Tableau 2019.2 including parameter
actions, vector maps, and a new Tableau Server browsing
experience.
Learn https://www.tableau.com/products/new-features

4. Why is Tableau useful?

A : Answering this question gives you a chance to show your big
picture understanding of the role of data and the role of analytics to
make sense of that data. Data for data’s sake has no value. Using a
visualization tool like Tableau makes data actionable. In addition,
Tableau is so useful because it is easy to learn, it can be somewhat
self-service even for those who are not data-minded, and it makes
sharing insights a straightforward task.

5. What are the different types of Tableau?

A: The different types of Tableau are Desktop, Prep, Online, and
Server.

6. What is data visualization?

A: Data visualization refers to the techniques used to communicate
data or information by encoding it as visual objects (e.g. points, lines
or bars) contained in graphics.

7. What is the difference between .twb and .twbx extension?

A .twb is an xml document which contains all the selections and
layout made you have made in your Tableau workbook. It does not
contain any data.
A .twbx is a ‘zipped’ archive containing a .twb and any external files
such as extracts and background images.

8. What is a parameter Tableau? And how it works?

A: Parameters are dynamic values, we can replace the constant
values in calculations.
9. What are different data types in Tableau?

As a data analysis tool, Tableau classifies every piece of data into one
of the four categories namely - String, Number, Boolean and
datetime. Once data is loaded from the source, Tableau
automatically assigns the data types. Contrarily, you can also change
some of the data types if it satisfies the data conversion rule. The
user has to specify the data type for calculated fields.
 10. How many maximum tables can you join in Tableau?
A: You can join a maximum of 32 tables in Tableau.

11. What are Dimensions and Facts?

Dimensions are nothing, however, the descriptive text columns and

facts are measures (numerical values) dimension ex: product name
town.facts: sales, profit.

12. What’s the distinction between a fast filter and traditional

filter in tableau?
A: A quick filter is employed to look at the filtering choices and might
wont to choose the choice. traditional filer are a few things you’ll
limit the choices from the list or use some conditions to limit the
information by field or price.

https://onlineitguru.com/tutorial/tableau-filters

13. Explain different connection types in Tableau.

A: There are 2 connection types available in Tableau.
Extract: Extract is a snapshot of data which will be extracted from
data source and put into Tableau repository. This snapshot can be
refreshed periodically fully or incrementally. This can be scheduled in
Tableau Server.
Live: It creates a direct connection to data source and data will be
fetched directly from tables. So, data will be up to date and
consistent. But, this also affects access speed.
14. What are measures and dimensions in tableau?
Tableau divides the data in two main types: dimensions and
measures. Dimensions are usually those fields that cannot be
aggregated; measures, as its name suggests, are those fields that can
be measured, aggregated, or used for mathematical operations.
Dimension fields are usually used for row or column headings;
measures are usually used for plotting or giving values to the sizes of
markers.

When you import the data for the first time, Tableau determines
whether to consider a field as a dimension or a measure. This
determination involves considering fields with all text (nominal or
other text) values and fields with numeric values. Depending on the
data source, Tableau also uses Microsoft's Jet Engine Driver.

Tableau experienced Interview questions

1. What Does TABLEAU do?

Our goal is to help people see and understand data. Our software
products put the power of data into the hands of everyday people,
allowing a broad population of business users to engage with their
data, ask questions, solve problems and create value.

2. What is your daily work process in tableau?

I think we all work on different projects using Tableau, so the work
begins from understanding the requirement getting the required
data, story boarding then creating visualizations in tableau and then
presenting it to the client for review.

3. How does Tableau perform with huge datasets?

Tableau Performance is based on Data source performance. If data
source takes more time to execute a query then Tableau must wait
up to that time.

4. How will you publish and schedule workbook in tableau server?

A: First create a schedule for particular time and then create extract
for the data source and publish the workbook for the server. Before
you publish, there is a option called Scheduling and Authentication,
click on that and select the schedule from the drop down which is
created and publish. Also publish data source and assign the
schedule. This schedule will automatically run for the assigned time
and the workbook is refreshed.

5. What are the Limitations of context filters?

A: Here are some of the limitations of context filters:

The client doesn’t regularly change the context filter – if the filter is
changed the database must re-process and rewrite the transitory
table, slowing performance.
When you set measurement to context, Tableau makes a transitory
table that will require a reload each time the view is started.

6. What is a LOD expression?

A: LOD Expressions give way to effectively compute aggregations
that are not at the level of detail of the visualization. You would then
be able to coordinate those values inside visualization in arbitrary
ways.

7. What is Tableau Data Engine?

A: Tableau Data Engine is a really cool feature in Tableau. Its an
analytical database designed to achieve instant query response,
predictive performance, integrate seamlessly into existing data
infrastructure and is not limited to load entire data sets into
memory.
If you work with a large amount of data, it does takes some time to
import, create indexes and sort data but after that everything speeds
up. Tableau Data Engine is not really in-memory technology. The
data is stored in disk after it is imported and the RAM is hardly
utilized.

8. What is Data Modelling?

A: Data modelling is the analysis of data objects that are used in a
business or other context and also used as identification of the
relationships among these data objects. It is a first step of doing
object-oriented programming.

9. What is the difference between heat map and tree map?

A: A heat map is a great way to compare categories using color and
size. In this, you can compare two different measures. Tree map is a
very powerful visualization, particularly for illustrating hierarchical
(tree – structured) data and part – to – whole relationships.

10. How many ways we use parameters in Tableau?

A: We can use parameters with filters, calculated fields ,actions,
measure-swap, changing views and auto updates.

11. What is the use of new Custom SQL Query in tableau?

A: Custom SQL Query written after connecting to data for pulling the
data in a structured view, One simple example is you have 50
columns in a table, but we need just 10 columns only. So instead of
taking 50 columns you can write a sql query. Performance will
increase.
 12. What are the differences between Tableau Software and
Traditional BI tools?
A: Tableau provides easy to use, best in class, Visual Analytic
capabilities, but it does not help with the plumbing (data
foundation). You could, for example, marry SQL Server with Tableau
to get the complete package. Tableau licenses are relatively
expensive if you are looking to scale.

Traditional BI can handle it all but with significant upfront costs.

Higher consulting, hardware and software costs. Among the mega-
vendors, only Microsoft can provide a reasonable value proposition.
Open source vendors like Pentaho and JasperSoft do not have an
abundant enough talent pool, yet.

13. How to create a calculated field in Tableau?

A: Click the drop down to the right of Dimensions on the Data pane
and select “Create > Calculated Field” to open the calculation editor.
Name the new field and create a formula.

14. What Is Aggregation And Disaggregation In A Tableau?

A: Both of the terms refer to ways in which the scatterplot can be
developed, which is then used to compare and measure the values
given. The former is calculated using different values of the same
type, and calculations are done with all of the values in use.

For example, a set of values like 1, 3, 5 and 7 will return 1 as a result.

Disaggregation, on the other hand, is used to analyze the values
independently by a number of methods both dependently and
independently.

15. Differentiate between Tiled and Floating in dashboards?

A: In a tiled layout, items don’t overlap. The layout will be adjusted
according to dashboard size. In Floating layout, items can be placed
on some other layers. Floating items can have fixed position and size.

16. What is VIZQL in Tableau?

A: VIZQL is Visual Inquiry Language. It is a combination of VIZ and
SQL. It is similar to SQL language. But instead of SQL commands,
VIZQL language converts data queries into visual images.

17. How many State the components of the dashboard

A: Dashboard consists of 5 components.

Web: it consists of a web page embedded in the dashboard.

Horizontal component: it is a horizontal layout container in which we
can add objects.
Vertical component: it is a vertical layout container in which we can
add objects.
Image Extract: it allows you to upload an image to dashboard from
computer.
Text: it is a small wordpad where we can format and edit the text.

What are the different types of joins in Tableau?

A: The joins in Tableau are same as SQL joins. Take a look at the
diagram below to understand it.

How many maximum tables can you join in Tableau?

A: You can join a maximum of 32 tables in Tableau.

What is disaggregation and aggregation of data?

A: Aggregation: to display aggregate data

Sum/avg salary by each individual employee

drag ename on columna and salary on rows we will get sum (salary)
of each and individual employee
now change measure type as Avg
Choose salary option – choose measure types as “Avg”

Disaggregation: To display each and every transaction

When you look at the aggregated data in the views above, each bar
represents all transactions for a specific employee summed up or
averaged into a single value. Now say that you want to see the
individual salary transactions for each employee. You can create a
view like that by selecting Analysis>Aggregate Measures.

18. Explain the integration of Tableau with R?

A : R is a popular open-source environment for statistical analysis.
Tableau Desktop can now connect to R through calculated fields and
take advantage of R functions, libraries, and packages and even
saved models. These calculations dynamically invoke the R engine
and pass values to R via the Rserve package, and are returned back
to Tableau.

Tableau Server can also be configured to connect to an instance of

Rserve through the tabadmin utility, allowing anyone to view a
dashboard containing R functionality.
Combining R with Tableau gives you the ability to bring deep
statistical analysis into a drag-and-drop visual analytics.

Tableau Experts Interview questions

1. What is the difference between joining and blending in

Tableau?
A: Joining term is used when you are combining data from the same
source, for example, worksheet in an Excel file or tables in Oracle
database
While blending requires two completely defined data sources in your
report.

2. What’s knowledge visualization?

A: Data Image refers to the techniques to communicate knowledge

or information by encrypting it as visual objects like points, lines or
bars that are contained in graphics.
 3. Clarify about Actions in Tableau?
A: Scene empowers you to add setting and instinct to your data
using activities. There are three kinds of activities in Tableau: Filter,
Highlight, and URL exercises
Channel activities empower you to use the data in a single view to
channel information in another as you make guided orderly stories.
Feature activities empower you to call attention to outer assets.
URL activities empower you to point to outside assets, for instance, a
site page, archive, or another Tableau worksheet.

4. What is information representation?

A: Information representation is a show if the data in a pictorial or
graphical frame. It engages leaders to have look examination
displayed outwardly, so they can understand testing thoughts or
make new examples. With canny perception, you can make the
thought a walk further by using innovation to draw them into
outlines and diagrams for more detail.
5. What is a dual axis?
A: Dual Axis is an excellent phenomenon supported by Tableau that
helps users view two scales of two measures in the same graph.
Many websites like Indeed.com and other make use of dual axis to
show the comparison between two measures and their growth rate
in a septic set of years. Dual axes let you compare multiple measures
at once, having two independent axes layered on top of one another.

6. What are Table Calculations?

A: It is a change you apply to the estimations of a solitary measure in
your view, in light of estimations in the dimension of detail.

Read more https://onlineitguru.com/tutorial/tableau-calculations

7. What Are The Differences Between Tableau Desktop And

Tableau Server?

A : While Tableau desktop performs data visualization and workbook

creation, Tableau server is used to distribute these interactive
workbooks and/or reports to the right audience. Users can edit and
update the workbooks and dashboards online or Server but cannot
create new ones. However, there are limited editing options when
compared to desktop.
Tableau Public is again a free tool consisting of Desktop and Server
components accessible to anyone.

8. What Are Quick Filters In Tableau?

A : Global quick filters are a way to filter each worksheet on a

dashboard until each of them contains a dimension. They are very
useful for worksheets using the same data source, which sometimes
proves to a disadvantage and generate slow results. Thus,
parameters are more useful.

9. How To Use Group In Calculated Field?

A : By adding the same calculation to ‘Group By’ clause in SQL query
or creating a Calculated Field in the Data Window and using that field
whenever you want to group the fields.
Using groups in a calculation. You cannot reference ad-hoc groups in
a calculation.
Blend data using groups created in the secondary data source: Only
calculated groups can be used in data blending if the group was
created in the secondary data source.
Use a group in another workbook. You can easily replicate a group in
another workbook by copy and pasting a calculation.
10. How To Remove ‘all’ Options From A Tableau Auto-filter?
A : The auto-filter provides a feature of removing ‘All’ options by
simply clicking the down arrow in the auto-filter heading. You can
scroll down to ‘Customize’ in the dropdown and then uncheck the
‘Show “All” Value’ attribute. It can be activated by checking the field
again.
11. How To Add Custom Color To Tableau?

A : Adding a Custom Color refers to a power tool in Tableau. Restart

you Tableau desktop once you save .tps file. From the Measures
pane, drag the one you want to add color to Color. From the color
legend menu arrow, select Edit Colors. When a dialog box opens,
select the palette drop-down list and customize as per requirement.

12. How To Do Performance Testing In Tableau?

A : Performance testing is again an important part of implementing

tableau. This can be done by loading Testing Tableau Server with
TabJolt, which is a “Point and Run” load generator created to
perform QA. While TabJolt is not supported by tableau directly, it has
to be installed using other open source products.

13. How Can You Display Top Five And Last Five Sales In The
Same View?
A: Create two sets, one for top 5 another for bottom 5 and the join
these two sets displaying a unique set of total 10 rows.

14. How you define and create calculated field in tableau?

A: Calculated field helps you define the calculation based on measure
and salary.
Like If you have Salary measure and bonus measures and asked to
find out new salary you Can define calculated field
New Salary= [salary]+[salary]*[bonus%]
You can create calculated field by right over dimension or measure
or Data shelf.
Syntax of creating sets using calculated field?
Answer: If sum[sales] > $1,50,00 Then ‘IN’
Else ‘Out’
End
The way to add custom Color to Tableau?

Create Custom code in “Preferences.tps”

Navigation ::: Documents » My Table Repository »Preferences.tps
Add custom code
 Note: In tableau nine.0 version we’ve color picker choice.

15. Is Tableau software good for strategic acquisition?

Yes! For sure. It gives you data insight to the extent that other tools
can’t. Moreover, it also helps you to plan and point the anomalies
and improvise your process for betterment of your company.
16. Can we place an excel file in a shared location and and
use it to develop a report and refresh it in regular intervals?
Yes, we can do it. But for better performance we should use Extract.
17. Can Tableau be installed on MacOS?
Yes, Tableau Desktop can be installed on both on Mac and Windows
Operating System.

18. What is the maximum no. of rows Tableau can utilize at

one time?
Tableau is not restricted by the no. of rows in the table. Customers
use Tableau to access petabytes of data because it only retrieves the
rows and columns needed to answer your questions. Learn
https://onlineitguru.com/tableau-online-training-placement.html

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