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Learning Tableau 2020 - Fourth Edition

You're reading from  Learning Tableau 2020 - Fourth Edition

Product type Book
Published in Aug 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800200364
Pages 576 pages
Edition 4th Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Joshua N. Milligan Joshua N. Milligan
Profile icon Joshua N. Milligan

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface 1. Taking Off with Tableau 2. Connecting to Data in Tableau 3. Moving Beyond Basic Visualizations 4. Starting an Adventure with Calculations and Parameters 5. Leveraging Level of Detail Calculations 6. Diving Deep with Table Calculations 7. Making Visualizations That Look Great and Work Well 8. Telling a Data Story with Dashboards 9. Visual Analytics – Trends, Clustering, Distributions, and Forecasting 10. Advanced Visualizations 11. Dynamic Dashboards 12. Exploring Mapping and Advanced Geospatial Features 13. Understanding the Tableau Data Model, Joins, and Blends 14. Structuring Messy Data to Work Well in Tableau 15. Taming Data with Tableau Prep 16. Sharing Your Data Story 17. Other Books You May Enjoy
18. Index

Understanding the Tableau Prep Builder interface

You'll find a lot of similarities in the interfaces of Tableau Prep Builder and Tableau Desktop. The home screen of Tableau Prep Builder will look similar to this:

Figure 15.1: The Tableau Prep Builder welcome screen with numbering to identify key components of the UI

The following components have been numbered in Figure 15.1:

  1. The menu includes options for opening files, editing and running flows, signing into Tableau Server, and various Help functions. Also notice the Connections Pane to the left, immediately beneath the File menu. It is collapsed initially, but will contain a list of data connections as you create them.
  2. The two large buttons at the top give you the option to Open a Flow, which opens an existing Tableau Prep flow file, or Connect to Data, to start a new flow with an initial data connection. We'll define a flow in the next section. For now, think of a flow in terms of Tableau...
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