Sets in Tableau
Set Operations
Most people don’t think about sets as their own type of calculation in Tableau, but sets are powerful tools. Set operations in Tableau (and more generally SQL) allow you to navigate problems like: which customers bought copiers but not tables?
Here’s a simple but powerful walkthrough of doing a set difference operation in Tableau:
Note on dynamic vs static sets
The example above uses static sets that I manually create. From Tableau’s documentation (as of 2024), “dynamic sets can only be based on a single dimension.”
There are other methods to create sets, such as set actions that I will expand upon more in a future post.