You're reading from Data Modeling with Tableau

Product type Book

Published in Dec 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803248028

Pages 356 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Concepts

Data Analysis

Author (1):

Kirk Munroe

Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Data Modeling on the Tableau Platform

2. Chapter 1: Introducing Data Modeling in Tableau

3. Chapter 2: Licensing Considerations and Types of Data Models

4. Part 2: Tableau Prep Builder for Data Modeling

5. Chapter 3: Data Preparation with Tableau Prep Builder

6. Chapter 4: Data Modeling Functions with Tableau Prep Builder

7. Chapter 5: Advanced Modeling Functions in Tableau Prep Builder

8. Chapter 6: Data Output from Tableau Prep Builder

9. Part 3: Tableau Desktop for Data Modeling

10. Chapter 7: Connecting to Data in Tableau Desktop

11. Chapter 8: Building Data Models Using Relationships

12. Chapter 9: Building Data Models at the Physical Level

13. Chapter 10: Sharing and Extending Tableau Data Models

14. Part 4: Data Modeling with Tableau Server and Online

15. Chapter 11: Securing Data

16. Chapter 12: Data Modeling Considerations for Ask Data and Explain Data

17. Chapter 13: Data Management with Tableau Prep Conductor

18. Chapter 14: Scheduling Extract Refreshes

19. Chapter 15: Data Modeling Strategies by Audience and Use Case

20. Index

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Using Tableau Prep Builder to connect to data

To run the exercises in this chapter, we will need the following downloaded files:

Bad Measures.xlsx
Mobile Phone Plans.xlsx
Product Database.xlsx
Sales Argentina.csv
Sales Chile.csv
Sales Colombia.csv
Sales Targets.xlsx
Superstore Sales Orders - Canada.xlsx
Superstore Sales Orders - US.xlsx

We are using these files as they give us a good representation of the types of data cleaning that we typically run into in our daily jobs and they align well with Tableau Prep Builder features. When possible, they also include data related to Tableau’s sample data, Superstore.

Let’s open Tableau Prep Builder and explore the user interface. If you are using the installed client, please open the program. If you are using the web client, you can launch it by creating a new flow. You can create a new flow from the home page on Tableau Server or Tableau Cloud, as shown in Figure 3.1:

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