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Frederic Fery (Data ChangeMakers) 님이 Survey Data에 질문했습니다

hi all,

Completely new to survey + Tableau.

Data from engineers is not ready yet, but only saw a quick preview.

 

The "value" filed in data source is a string that contains 0 to 5, yes/No and text answers (less often, never, once a year...)

 

Is it best practice to separate and have a Value field that is a number and only contains numbers and a separate text field for text answers?

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  1. 2021년 10월 4일 오후 9:50

    Hi Frederic,

    We usually receive all the values in a single text-format field (say it's called [Value]), then create a calculated field in Tableau (say, [Value (numeric)] that converts convertible numbers into numbers with the desired function like INT() or FLOAT(). It's not necessary to re-engineer the original data, in other words.

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