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Tableau Prep Cookbook

You're reading from   Tableau Prep Cookbook Use Tableau Prep to clean, combine, and transform your data for analysis

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800563766
Length 288 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Hendrik Kleine Hendrik Kleine
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Tableau Prep 2. Chapter 2: Extract and Load Processes FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Cleaning Transformations 4. Chapter 4: Data Aggregation 5. Chapter 5: Combining Data 6. Chapter 6: Pivoting Data 7. Chapter 7: Creating Powerful Calculations 8. Chapter 8: Data Science in Tableau Prep Builder 9. Chapter 9: Creating Prep Flows in Various Business Scenarios 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 5: Combining Data

Besides cleaning up your data inputs, Tableau Prep can be used to increase the value of your new dataset by augmenting it with complementary data. This can be done by extending the dataset vertically, adding more rows, or horizontally, by adding new data columns. Performing such data preparation tasks within Tableau Prep allows you to create a dataset that includes key data from multiple inputs, making the end result a comprehensive dataset for analysis.

In this chapter, you will learn how to combine different datasets by using a variety of different methods. Combining data is one of the most common actions in data preparation. Most organizations source data from multiple systems and combining that data into a holistic dataset allows more insightful analysis than looking at each dataset in isolation.

In this chapter, you'll find the following recipes to help you combine your data for analytics:

  • Combining data with Union
  • Combining data...
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