When Tableau automatically classifies a field as a measure in the Data pane, what does that classification tell you about the type of information stored in the field, as opposed to fields classified as dimensions?
It is composed exclusively of text strings that identify unique rows.
It stores descriptive categories used only for grouping records.
It contains quantitative numeric values that Tableau will aggregate by default.
It represents discrete date parts like month or weekday.
Measures hold quantitative, typically numeric values such as Sales, Profit, or Quantity. Because they are numeric, Tableau aggregates them (SUM, AVG, etc.) when they are added to a view. Dimensions, by contrast, contain descriptive or categorical data-like Product Name or Region-that Tableau uses to slice the measures but does not aggregate themselves. Text-only fields, discrete date parts, and general categories therefore belong to dimensions, not measures.
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