You may find it useful to hide columns of data that are not typically used for visualizations, or hide them in order to prevent unintended bias in visualizations.
The following steps demonstrate how to prevent data fields from appearing in visualizations and applications of dataset World Life Expectancy [data source samples.world_life_expectancy]. The fields comments
, lat
, and lng
are empty, so they are good candidates for this operation.
On the main navigation bar, click Data.
The Data view appears, open on the Datasets tab.
In the Datasets area, select World Life Expectancy (samples.world_life_expectancy)
.
In the Dataset Detail menu, select Attributes.
In the Attributes area, select Edit Attributes.
comments
.Click (eye) icon on the comments
line.
Note that the icon next to the comment
field changed to (slashed eye).
Under Measures, find the fields lat
and lng
, and hide them.
Click Save.
Note that in the updated Dataset Attributes area, Dimensions table has a total of 13
items while showing only 12
of them. Similarly, Measures table lists a total of 5
fields while showing only 3
.