Sometimes you need to be able to do an 'outer join' against sparse data. Like if you have a few dates and you want to lay those across a calendar, but you want to color code a mark for every single day. Or if you have a bunch of potential output categories but your viz doesn't currently show them all, and you want to have a category displayed for each one.

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Integer Sequence

Generate a list of values between "Start" and "End", incrementing by "Step". For example, for Start=1, End=6, Step=2, this will generate [1, 3, 5]

Integer List

Stick a list of values into Tableau as a datasource. The provided example represents [1, -17, 1, 5]

Float Sequence

Generate a list of values between "Start" and "End", incrementing by "Step". For example, for Start=1.1, End=6, Step=1.5, this will generate [1.1, 2.6, 4.1, 5.6]

Float List

Stick a list of values into Tableau as a datasource. The provided example represents [1.3, -7, 5.1]

Date with Day Increment Sequence

Generate a list of dates between "Start" and "End", incrementing by "Step" days. For example, for Start=1/1/2017, End=1/6/2017, Step=2, this will generate [1/1/2017, 1/3/2017, 1/5/2017]. You can also use integers like "0", "3" and "-1" to represent the current day, 3 days from now and yesterday.

Date List

Stick a list of dates into Tableau as a datasource. The provided example represents [1/1/2017, 1/5/2017, 1/9/2017]
Maybe one day?

String List

Stick a list of strings into Tableau as a datasource. The provided example represents ["foo", "bar"]