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Prepare Your Data for Tableau: A Practical Guide to the Tableau Data Prep Tool
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Prepare Your Data for Tableau: A Practical Guide to the Tableau Data Prep Tool

by Tim Costello, Lori Blackshear
December 2019
Beginner to intermediate
207 pages
3h 54m
English
Apress
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Part IExtract

Extract
We begin the journey from source data to fully prepped analytics-ready data with the Extract phase. In this section we will look at the types of data we can connect to, ways we can join different data sources, and some of the things we can do to (hopefully) avoid shooting ourselves in the foot by becoming more aware of common mistakes and how to avoid them.
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Figure 1

Join Type control in the Data Prep Builder

We will begin by exploring the different files and server-based data sources we can connect to and talk through some of the implications of working with data sourced from different systems.

Next, we will look at a join type ...

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