I’m new be to the tableau, learning online tableau course and want to flip my survey data so I can use it in Tableau. Here is the example data in SPSS (keep in mind that each variable has value & variable labels).
ID age rate1 rate2 rate3 mr_1 mr_2 mr_3 ...
1 35 8 3 2 1 2
2 40 2 2 3 2
3 41 6 3 5 2 3
4 43 3 3 1
Where rate1-3 are 3 rating questions. Mr_1 to mr_3 is a multiple response check all the apply question (What is your ethnicity? 1=White 2=Hispanic, 3=Black)
I flip the data using this:
VARSTOCASES
/MAKE answer FROM age rate1 rate2 rate3 mr_1 mr_2 mr_3
/INDEX=Index1(7)
/KEEP= All
/NULL=KEEP.
Results look like this:
ID Index1 answer
1 1 35
1 2 8
1 3 3
1 4 2
1 5 1
...
...
...
Which works just fine when connecting this to Tableau. However, what I want is more than just Index1 as an identifier to each variable that has been flipped. What I want is this (Var, VarLab, ValueLabel are just String variables):
ID Var VarLab answer ValueLabel
1 'age' 'What is your age?' 35 '35'
1 'rate1' 'Rate food' 8 '8'
1 'rate2' 'Rate wait time' 3 '3'
1 'rate3' 'Rate bathroom' 2 '2'
1 'mr_1' 'Ethnicity' 1 'White'
1 'mr_2' 'Ethnicity' 2 'Hispanic'
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As you can see, I retained the variable label, value label, and the variable name itself for each flipped variable. This is the ideal Tableau setup as Tableau requires “tall” datasets. Also, I can use either the string or numeric representation of the response. Lastly, I no longer need to edit aliases inside of Tableau. Any ideas on how to accomplish this? Perhaps this will require python or macro? Any ideas are greatly appreciated.