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Published inMar 2021
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781800563766
Edition1st Edition
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Hendrik Kleine
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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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Filtering your dataset

When preparing your data for analysis, it's good practice to provide the least amount of data required to perform that analysis. Our data inputs frequently contain data that is not required and that you may want to remove immediately during an input step.

Alternatively, you may transform your data in a Tableau Prep flow, and as a result, a field may become redundant at some point after the input step itself.

In Tableau Prep, there are three methods you can use to filter your data. In this recipe, we'll perform filter actions using all three methods: calculation filters, selected values filters, and regular filters.

Getting ready

To follow along with this recipe, download the Sample Files 3.2 folder from this book's GitHub repository.

How to do it…

Open up Tableau Prep Builder and connect to the Superstore Sales.hyper extract file, then follow the steps:

  1. With an input step, the only method to filter our data is...
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Published in: Mar 2021Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781800563766

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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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