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LOD Expression Remix – Finding a Dimension at a Lower Level

Last week Mark Jackson had a great post on using Tableau v9 Level of Detail expressions to find a dimension at a lower level (with an update here). In his Superstore example where there are multiple Categories in each State, the goal is to show a view of each State with the largest Category in that State based on the number of customers, like this:

2015-05-27 10_43_52-Tableau - return lower level dim from LODIn this remix post I’ll demonstrate an alternative solution that doesn’t require any string manipulation, along with going through my current process for building & verifying LOD expressions.

[Post edited 20140527 to include links to Mark’s update to his original post.]

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