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Mastering Tableau 2023 - Fourth Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Aug 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803233765
Pages 684 pages
Edition 4th Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Marleen Meier Marleen Meier
Profile icon Marleen Meier

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface Reviewing the Basics Getting Your Data Ready Using Tableau Prep Builder Learning about Joins, Blends, and Data Structures Introducing Table Calculations Utilizing OData, Data Densification, Big Data, and Google BigQuery Practicing Level of Detail Calculations Going Beyond the Basics Working with Maps Presenting with Tableau Designing Dashboards and Best Practices for Visualizations Leveraging Advanced Analytics Improving Performance Exploring Tableau Server and Tableau Cloud Integrating Programming Languages Developing Data Governance Practices Other Books You May Enjoy
Index

Summary

We started this chapter with an introduction to Prep. We looked at the GUI and how we can connect data to it. After that, we did some exercises regarding data preparation. This can be divided into five parts: data cleaning, unions and joins, aggregating, pivoting, and scripting. We also considered several additional options to improve the usefulness of your data, including inserting steps from other flows, and incremental refreshes. To round out this chapter on Prep, we looked at exporting data. Here, we saw that the new dataset can be saved as a file or data extract, written back to an external database, or pushed directly to Tableau Server.

Just like Tableau Desktop, Prep is very much self-explanatory and highly visual. Colors, symbols, and highlights make it easy to get used to this extract, transform, and load tool, which is invaluable for preparing your data before manipulating it on the main Tableau interface!

In the next chapter, we’ll continue our exploration...

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