Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, and user input are shown as follows: "We’ll create a calculated field named Floor to determine if an apartment is upstairs or downstairs."

A block of code is set as follows:

IF [Apartment] >= 1 AND [Apartment] <= 3
 THEN "Downstairs"
ELSEIF [Apartment] > 3 AND [Apartment] <= 6
 THEN "Upstairs"
ELSE "Unknown"
END

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see in the Tableau interface, such as those in menus, dialog boxes or field names, appear in the text like this: "Drag and drop the Customer field to the Rows shelf."

Note

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.

Tip

Tips and tricks appear like this.