


By dragging this calculation to the dimensions pane, you can use these bins with cube data sources and calculated fields.

For example: (FLOOR(/1000)*1000) will create bins with a size of 1000. However, it is possible to create a calculated field that will replicate a bin of a specific size. Sources and binned fields cannot be used in calculations. Note: You can bin data only for relational data But if you want to see values for Profit assigned to bins without reference to a dimension, you can create a numeric bin, with each individual bin corresponding to a range of values. You could consider the State field as a set of bins-each profit value is sorted into a bin corresponding to the state from which the value was recorded. For example, suppose you create a view with Profit on Rows and State on Columns. Sometimes it's useful to convert a continuous measureĪny discrete field in Tableau can be considered as a set of bins.
