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Tableau Certified Data Analyst Certification Guide

You're reading from   Tableau Certified Data Analyst Certification Guide Ace the Tableau Data Analyst certification exam with expert guidance and practice material

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803243467
Length 462 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Daisy Jones Daisy Jones
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Harry Cooney Harry Cooney
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Connecting to Data FREE CHAPTER 2. Chapter 2: Transforming Data 3. Chapter 3: Calculations 4. Chapter 4: Grouping and Filtering 5. Chapter 5: Charts 6. Chapter 6: Dashboards 7. Chapter 7: Formatting 8. Chapter 8: Publishing and Managing Content 9. Chapter 9: Accessing the Online Practice Resources 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Introduction

This chapter will start by covering the data types available in Tableau and how they interact. You will look into ways to clean data once it has been brought into both Tableau Desktop and Tableau Prep, followed by the data transformation options available in both. Finally, the methods available to combine data sources in both Tableau Desktop and Tableau Prep will be covered.

When importing data into Tableau for analysis, there are a number of considerations to make first. For example, a company wanting to analyze quarterly sales data in Tableau would first need to consider whether the data is complete and include sales for the whole quarter. The product names in the quarterly sales data may need to be cleaned first and some transformations may be required, such as calculating total sales from the unit price and the quantity sold. To make these decisions, the user needs to understand the different data types in Tableau so that they can be configured correctly, as well...

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