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Data Analytics & Visualization All-in-One For Dummies
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Data Analytics & Visualization All-in-One For Dummies

by Jack A. Hyman, Luca Massaron, Paul McFedries, John Paul Mueller, Lillian Pierson, Jonathan Reichental, Joseph Schmuller, Alan R. Simon, Allen G. Taylor
April 2024
Beginner content levelBeginner
832 pages
20h 32m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 3

Diving into the Tableau Prep Lifecycle

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Exploring key features and functionality of Tableau Prep Builder

Bullet Managing data flows across Tableau Prep Builder, Tableau Desktop, and Tableau Cloud

Bullet Mastering data cleansing and preparation in Tableau Prep Builder

Bullet Saving Tableau Prep Builder data for personal and collaborative use

If you ask a thousand data analysts what they spend the most time completing, from sourcing data to data visualization and reporting, most folks will say data preparation. Unless you craft the dataset on your own, ensuring that every field maps perfectly to a T, you seldom have pure data entry. Tableau recognizes that this issue is one of the complexities in the data life cycle, which is why one of the first products introduced in the solution stack was Tableau Prep Builder. For those needing to twist and bend their data so that it can be shaped and integrated for mass consumption, Tableau Prep Builder is your one-stop shop to handling all these data life cycle activities, from combining, shaping, and cleaning the data before analysis in ...

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