June 2021
Beginner to intermediate
159 pages
3h 8m
English
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Chapter 1. Tableau’s Product Ecosystem
The first thing to know as you’re getting started is that you don’t simply “download Tableau.” Tableau is a brand—and under its brand umbrella, it provides a family of end-to-end, self-service analytics products, spanning data engineering to dashboard distribution. The choice of which product you download, use, or access comes down to your role within your organization, the permissions you have to access confidential company data, and/or the trust you have to share insights with others. This chapter covers Tableau’s current product lineup, its licensing model, and version updates.
Tableau Products
Tableau Prep Builder is drag-and-drop data engineering software that allows you to connect to various data sources and prepare them for use with Tableau Desktop or other software programs. With Tableau Prep Builder, you can combine, clean, aggregate, and/or pivot data before either saving it locally or publishing it to a central repository for others to use.
Tableau Prep Conductor, included in Tableau’s Data Management add-on, allows you to schedule and automate the data engineering flows that are developed within Tableau Prep Builder.
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For an in-depth guide to Tableau Prep Builder and Tableau Prep Conductor, check out Tableau Prep: Up & Running by Carl Allchin (O’Reilly, 2020).
Tableau Desktop is drag-and-drop analytics and data visualization software. With Tableau Desktop, you can connect to a wide variety of data sources, explore data of ...
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