I have two fields that contain concatenated strings. The first field contains medical codes and the second field contains the descriptions of those codes. I don't want to break these into multiple fields because some of them would contain hundreds of splits. Is there any way to break them into a row each like below? The code and description values are separated by a semicolon (;)
code description
----- ------------
80400 description1
80402 description2
A sample of the data:
One way is you can custom split two columns at ; which will create separate columns for every entry then you can pivot code columns and description columns separately.
One issue will be you can't guarantee if every code is mapped to correct description.
One more way is export data to excel sheet and then split and pivot the columns and then match the code and description, Then take the excel as datasource to the tableau.
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I have a ADF data flow with many csv files as a source and a SQL database as a sink. The data in the csv files are similar with 170 plus columns wide however not all of the files have the same columns. Additionally, some column names are different in each file, but each column name starts with the same corresponding 3 digits. Example: 203-student name, 644-student GPA.
Is it possible to map source columns using the first 3 characters?
Go back to the data flow designer and edit the data flow.
Click on the parameters tab
Create a new parameter and choose string array data type
For the default value as per your requirement, enter ['203-student name','203-student grade',’203-student-marks']
Add a Select transformation. The Select transformation will be used to map incoming columns to new column names for output.
We're going to change the first 3 column names to the new names defined in the parameter
To do this, add 3 rule-based mapping entries in the bottom pane
For the first column, the matching rule will be position==1 and the name will be $parameter11
Follow the same pattern for column 2 and 3
Click on the Inspect and Data Preview tabs of the Select transformation to view the new column name.
Reference - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/tutorial-data-flow-dynamic-columns#parameterized-column-mapping
I am working with a customer survey in MS Forms, there are 2 questions that have multiple selections. What I want to know is, how do I split these columns into new rows while duplicating the data in the other columns?
I know how to split the column by delimiter, I'm just struggling to figure out the correct approach to split the columns and duplicate the rows.
Here are the two columns, crossed out for sensitive info, there are about 10+ additional columns with data that I would like to be duplicated with each split.
Follow these bellow steps-
Input:
Step one:
Step two:
Output:
I have some samples I need to take.
In order to create a good identifier/serial number for the samples, I want it to be a product of its characteristics.
For example, if the sample was taken from India and the temperature was 40 degrees then I would click dropdowns in the form to create those two entries and then a serial number would be spat out in the form "Ind40".
Assuming that your form is bound to a table, you can create a calculated column in the table that concatenates the values from other columns into a single value.
For instance, create a new column and give it a name (for example, SerialNbr). Then for Data Type select "Calculated". An expression builder window will appear:
Enter the columns you'd like to concatenate and separate them with &. Here is an example of how the expression could look:
Left([Country],3) & [Temperature]
This expression takes the first 3 chars from the Country column and combines it with the value from Temperature column to create the value in column SerialNbr. The calculated column will automatically update when values are entered into the other fields. I'd also suggest adding another value to the calculated expression to help avoid duplicates, such as date/time of submission.
I have an issue that I have been trying to solve for the better part of a week now. I have a large database (in Google sheets) representing casestudies. I have some columns with multiple categories listed (in this example 'species', 'genera', and 'morphologies'), and I want to be able to tally how many times each category occurs in the data set.
I use Tableau to visalise the data, and the final output will be a large publc tableau. I know I can do a "find" based on the specific string, but I'd like the dataset to be dynamic and be able to handle new data being added without having to update calculated fields? Is there a way of finding uniqe terms (either from a single column of comma separated values, or from multiple columns), and tallying them?
Things I have tried so far:
1 - A pivot table in Tableau. Works well, but messes with all the other data, since it repeats lines.
2 - A pivot table on its own data source in Tableau. Also works well, and avoids the problem of messing with the other data. However, now each figure is disconnected from the others so I can't do a large dashboard where everything is filtered by each other (ie filtering species and genera by country at the same time).
3 - An SQL query() in google sheets, which finds all unique terms and queries them, which can then be plotted in Tableau. Also works well, but similar problem of the data being disconnected from all the other terms in the dataset.
Any ideas of a field calculation that will find, list and tally unique terms in a single comma separated column (or across multiple columns), without changing the data structure?
I have placed a sample data set here (google sheets), which is a smaller version of what I'm actually working on. In it I have marked comma separated columns in grey, and they're followed by a bunch of columns with the values split into columns. I only need to analyse either of those (ie either a calculation to separate comma separate values or from multiple columns).
I've also added a sample Tableau workbook here.
I am new to using Tableau.I want to count the number of times each genre appears in the data set.
In the data set(image attached), I have several genres for one show. I want to count the number of each genre in the data set and display it in Tableau
If you have access to database, then take the dump of data in a excel.
Split the data by , and then create a individual column for every word in the genre column.
Now take the excel as source to tableau, In tableau pivot the splitted columns of Genre.
Go to sheet in tableau, Place the pivot field values in rows and count of pivot field values as measures.
You should be able to see the desired result.
This can be done by an alternative method if you know the distinct list of all genre.
what you need to do is to create a separate calculative field for each Genre using
if contains(Genre,'action') then 1 else 0 end
and then use the Sum of these field as the count of Series per genre.
I know this is a hideous task but, it can be done if you do not have any other option.