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

© Tim Costello, Lori Blackshear 2020

T. Costello, L. BlackshearPrepare Your Data for Tableauhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5497-4_2

2. About the Demo Data

Tim Costello¹  and Lori Blackshear²

(1)

Euless, TX, USA

(2)

Fort Worth, TX, USA

 

My goal in this book is to walk through the ETL process from beginning to end, building a new data set from several public data sources I found in a morning of searching online. The first step in any ETL process is to get familiar with the data you will be working with. This chapter introduces you to the data that we will use throughout the rest of this book.

ZTCA to Census Tract

Figure 2-1

US Census

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