Tableau Certification Exam Questions - Part 6

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Question AF

Use SPCL_Sample-Superstore-Subset Excel File and using Orders sheets,Find the product sub category having the lowest sales across all years in the same product sub category

Solution Concept

Apparently this question looks very simple, but there is a little catch in this question that they have asked to find the lowest sales of product sub category across all the years. We can achieve result by using Rank function of Quick Table Calculations.

Note: if you want to practice this question on your PC, you can download the data source from data sources page from our website menu.

Rank is a very useful feature to identify the desired result from a big range of values. There are different type of Rank functions and its competitions available in Tableau. In order to learn how Rank works in Quick Table calculations, you can continue your learning journey and can read the following article from Tableau knowledge base.

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Text Based Solution

Open Tableau Desktop, Go to File menu navigation as shown below

It will open a new blank workbook like following

Click on Connect to data

From following screen click the Excel data source option.

It will ask the location for the data source available on the system, select the correct data source file and load it, Once you select the excel data source file from your local PC, it will be loaded in the Tableau and will look like as following

Select Orders Sheet and drop in the data pane

Its data will be visible and will look like this

Click on the sheet icon to create a new sheet as shown below

New Sheet will open like this

Click the Order Date and drag it to columns shelf

Sheet will look like this

Select the sales measure and put it on the Text as shown below

It will show the sales across years

Now select Product Sub Category and drag it to Rows Shelf

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Now the sheet is showing the sales across product sub category across all available years

Now select the Sales measure and select the Rank function from the Quick Table Calculations as shown below

Data sheet will look like this

In order to understand it more clearly, let’s put sales measure on Text

Sheet will look like this

Let us now observe any one product sub category and understand the behavior. If you just focus on the data of Office Machines, we see that Rank is computed across product categories and following points can be observed

Rank is 1 for highest sales value across all years for product category for office machines.

Rank is 4 for lowest sales value across all years for product category for office machines.

This behavior of Rank is controlled by its default properties which we can be seen from the following navigation as shown below

It shows following default properties, you can try different options of Rank and learn more about using different values of Rank competition

Now let us remove the Sales from the Marks Pane, keeping only Sales Quick Table Calculations in the Marks pane as shown below

We can see very clearly that there is only one product sub category (Bookcases) which has Rank Value 4 (Lowest Sales across all years for that product sub category) in our last year which is year 2013.

As highlighted in the above screenshot that Bookcases is the only product sub category which has lowest sales in last year (2013) else all product sub categories have got increase in sales figures across years.