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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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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

Installing Tableau Prep Builder

In this recipe, you'll install Tableau Prep Builder. We'll download the software, perform the installation, and open Tableau Prep Builder for the first time.

Getting ready

To enjoy the many benefits of Tableau Prep Builder, you need a license key. Typically, this would be issued by your administrator. Alternatively, you may have purchased a license yourself at https://buy.tableau.com/.

If you do not have a license key, Tableau offers a free trial so you can start right away.

As with all recipes in this book, the installation is performed on an Apple MacBook running macOS Big Sur. The steps are nearly identical on Windows machines and you can follow along on either operating system.

How to do it…

Ensure you're connected to the internet and have your favorite browser open:

  1. Navigate to https://www.tableau.com/products/prep/download, enter your business email, and click START FREE TRIAL:

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