Tableau: Hierarchies
Organize data and simplify visualization by creating Hierarchies
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2 min readJun 22, 2020
Hierarchies are commonly used in Tableau to organize data and simplify the data visualization process.
A typical example is when we deal with Geographic data, and we need to create a hierarchy to define the relationship between countries, regions, and provinces.
The database that we are using is composed of Italian regions, provinces, and their respective populations.
One way to create a hierarchy is to Drag and Drop one element into the other. In our example, Provinces is a sub-category of Region . Therefore, we click on Provinces and Drag and Drop it into Region .
After choosing the name of the hierarchy, we have just created…
…we can see it in the Data Pane (1) and in the Rows Field (2).
