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Published inMar 2019
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ISBN-139781788839525
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Joshua N. Milligan
Joshua N. Milligan
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Joshua N. Milligan

Joshua N. Milligan is a Hall of Fame Tableau Zen Master and 2017 Iron Viz Global finalist. His passion is training, mentoring, and helping people gain insights and make decisions based on their data through data visualization using Tableau and data cleaning and structuring using Tableau Prep. He is a principal consultant at Teknion Data Solutions, where he has served clients in numerous industries since 2004.
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Understanding the Tableau Prep Builder Interface

You'll find a lot of similarities in the interfaces of Tableau Prep Builder and Tableau Desktop. The home screen of Tableau Prep Builder will look similar to this:

The following components have been numbered in the preceding screenshot:

  1. The menu includes options for opening files, editing and running flows, signing into Tableau Server, and various Help functions.
  2. The two large buttons at the top give you the option to Open a Flow to open an existing work or Connect to Data to start a new flow with an initial data connection. We'll define a flow in the next section. For now, think of a flow in terms of Tableau Prep's equivalent of a Tableau Desktop workbook.
  3. Recent Flows shows the Tableau Prep data flows that you have recently saved. You may click on one of these to open the flow and edit or run it. A toggle button...
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Published in: Mar 2019Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781788839525

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Joshua N. Milligan

Joshua N. Milligan is a Hall of Fame Tableau Zen Master and 2017 Iron Viz Global finalist. His passion is training, mentoring, and helping people gain insights and make decisions based on their data through data visualization using Tableau and data cleaning and structuring using Tableau Prep. He is a principal consultant at Teknion Data Solutions, where he has served clients in numerous industries since 2004.
Read more about Joshua N. Milligan