Tableau Desktop Foundations Practice Question

After you right-click a continuous measure and choose Create > Bins to build a histogram, how does Tableau treat the newly created bin field by default?

As a table calculation applied to the original measure at visualization time
As a parameter that can be used in other calculations to adjust bin size
As a discrete dimension that represents numeric ranges of the original measure
As a continuous measure that automatically calculates the bin headers

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Answer Description

When you create bins, Tableau generates a separate field containing the bin ranges. That field is placed in the Dimensions area because each bin represents a discrete category (a range label such as "0-4" or "5-9"). Although the underlying values are numeric, the field is treated as a discrete dimension, which you can drag to Columns or Rows to build the histogram. It is not left as a continuous measure, converted to a parameter, or defined as a table calculation.

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