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Change the summary operation

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Change the summary operation

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- When you visualize data in Tableau, most of the time you'll want to find the sum of whatever data you have collected. There might be times, however, when you want to do a different kind of analysis, for example, finding the average value of sales. In this movie, I will show you how to change the summary operation for a visualization. My sample file is 02_06_Summary and you can find it in the Chapter 2 folder of the exercise files collection. I have a visualization that summarizes sales, total sales for the year of 2021 and 2022 broken down by product category and by customer type. I can tell it's the sum because I can go over to the Marks card and see that my order total field has sum to the left of it as its aggregation or aggregate calculation. If I want to change that calculation, I can go to the order total pill on the Marks card and click its down arrow. And then I will point to measure and I can select any…

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