Full Dynamic Tables on Einstein Analytics / Tableau CRM Pt. 1

Analytics is a superior visualization tool. You can achieve many things with it.

It has improved a whole lot in the last couple of years… but I remember the beginnings.

It was a bit clumsy and you needed to do almost everything through code.

That changed a lot. Now you can achieve so much just by using the UI.

One element that for some time I felt was left behind was the Table Widget. It took a while to improve but it looks so much better now. You can customize it pretty much however you want.

You can create advanced calculations using the included functions, add columns, filters and more. The challenge comes when you need to apply dynamic groupings or have advanced bindings in your code.

This will be a series of post where I will try to cover one simple use case and multiple advanced ones.

I am assuming you have at least the basic knowledge about Bindings, JSON and SAQL.

Simple Compare Table with Dynamic Groupings (Compact Mode + Bindings)

You can use any dataset that you have but I will use this one: