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# Spot Trends

Add reference lines to mark specific values on an axis, or use trend lines to visualize statistical trends in your data. To clarify the exact position of data points, especially in dense visualizations, you can add drop lines. For discovering underlying patterns, clustering will automatically group similar data points together.

This section provides all the documentation you need to get started with trend analysis in Tableau

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