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Turn NULL values into something meaningful

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You may have had this problem in the past: people fill out your survey and skip certain questions. Therefore you’ll see NULL values in your Tableau visualization:

Turn NULL values into something meaningful - Tableau NULL Values

Technically it is correct to show it in this way, but for your end users you may want to show something like “0 %” or “not answered” instead. How do you do this within Tableau? Well just open up the formatting pane -> Fields -> YOUR_MEASURE and fill out the text box to define what Tableau should visualize if there is no value in a particular cell of your data source:

Turn NULL values into something meaningful - Special Values instead of NULL

Timo Tautenhahn
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Timo originally coded his own BI-application by making use of different JAVA libraries. He Worked for IBM as BI-specialist and BA-architect before he joined Tableau. Favorite subject: JavaScript API

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    Marc 10. November 2015 at 19:44 Reply

    Interesting!

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