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Published inMar 2021
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781800563766
Edition1st Edition
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Hendrik Kleine
Hendrik Kleine
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Hendrik Kleine

Hendrik Kleine is an advanced analytics leader with 15 years of experience in the analytics space, including in data architecture, engineering, and visualization. He specializes in translating vast amounts of data into easy-to-understand visual communications that provide actionable intelligence. He is an avid innovator and a listed author of multiple data-related inventions. Before COVID-19, he was a speaker at the most recent Tableau conference in San Francisco.
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Preparing data for Tableau Desktop ad hoc analysis

In this recipe, you'll learn how to use Tableau Prep to generate a Tableau Desktop workbook at any point in your flow, to perform further analysis on that data.

Similar to the third recipe, Using Tableau Prep for ad hoc data analysis, we'll find the answer to the question posed for the Superstore data: Which is the top category of products that consumers order with same-day delivery? However, this time, we'll get the answer in Tableau Desktop instead.

Getting ready

Open the Tableau Prep Superstore flow to follow along with the steps outlined. Ensure that Tableau Desktop is installed.

How to do it…

In the steps that follow, we'll produce a temporary hyper extract that will allow us to perform quick ad hoc analysis in Tableau Desktop:

  1. To perform quick ad hoc analysis with a dataset in Tableau Desktop, you can click any step (excluding input and output steps) and select Preview in Tableau...
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Tableau Prep Cookbook
Published in: Mar 2021Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781800563766

Author (1)

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Hendrik Kleine

Hendrik Kleine is an advanced analytics leader with 15 years of experience in the analytics space, including in data architecture, engineering, and visualization. He specializes in translating vast amounts of data into easy-to-understand visual communications that provide actionable intelligence. He is an avid innovator and a listed author of multiple data-related inventions. Before COVID-19, he was a speaker at the most recent Tableau conference in San Francisco.
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