Tableau Calculations Explained: Mastering Basic, Aggregate, Table and LOD Functions

Unlock the full potential of your data with Tableau Calculations Explained—a practical webinar designed to help you confidently use Tableau’s most powerful features for organization-specific logic. Whether you're building dashboards or analyzing data for business decisions, understanding calculations is the critical skill to extracting deeper insights.

In this session, we’ll break down the different types of Tableau calculations—Basic, Aggregate, Table and Level-of-Detail (LOD)—with clear explanations, hands-on examples and expert tips on when and how to use each type effectively.

If you’ve ever been unsure which type of calculation to use or struggled to troubleshoot formulas, this webinar is for you.

During this webinar, attendees will:

• Demystify Tableau Calculations: Learn the differences between basic expressions, aggregations, table calcs and LODs—and when each is appropriate
• Walk Through Hands-On Examples: See how each type of calculation can be applied to common use cases like percent-of-total, running totals, if/then logic and complex business logic
• Learn Performance and Testing Tips: Discover how to troubleshoot formula errors, speed up performance and test calculation logic step-by-step using Tableau’s built-in capabilities
• Understand Calculation Nuances and Tradeoffs: Learn how the different types of calculations impact dashboard performance, filtering order of operations and scalability