

Second, click the dropdown arrow above Month and select Create Calculated Field to open a dialog box. First, change the data type of Month to Date. (See for help.) The goal here is to calculate a date field called Date, which will be used in a line chart. Dates are tricky to work with in Tableau Public. Change the data type of CPI to Number (decimal).e. Change the data type of the Year column to Number (whole).d. The month columns will be collapsed into two long columns, which you can rename Month and CPI.c. To use it, highlight all month columns and select Pivot from the dropdown arrow above any month heading. Tableau Public lets you restructure the data in this way with its “pivot” tool. It would be better to have only three columns: Year, Month, and CPI.

Experiment to see which union of them you need.) There should be 14 columns: Year, a column for each month, and a Table Name column. You will see several items in the left pane.

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(When you connect to the pdf source file, ask it to scan for All. Import the data in Table 1 into Tableau Public. We are interested only in the first table, which contains monthly values of the Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers (the CPI-U index) from 1913 to mid-2018. The P04_26.pdf file (from the Bureau of Labor Statistics) contains two tables. This problem has been solved: Solutions for Chapter 4 Problem 26P: Tableau Public can also import table data from pdf files.
