Chapter 9: Creating Prep Flows in Various Business Scenarios

So far in this book, we've learned a wide variety of capabilities offered by Tableau Prep. In this chapter, we're going to cover creating an end-to-end flow in Tableau Prep. Each recipe will allow you to prepare for a realistic business scenario in which you may use Tableau Prep. In the first recipe, we'll build a data flow that prepares transaction data for a chain of stores, for the purpose of downstream analysis. During this process, we'll prepare the data and perform cleanup actions so that the downstream analysis can leverage a comprehensive and clean dataset. In the second recipe, we'll use Tableau Prep to answer questions. That is, we'll transform the data to answer a specific business question. Both of these recipes mimic real-world scenarios that you are likely to encounter, no matter the industry you work in.

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Creating...