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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

Combining data with Union

Data is typically produced by multiple systems and certain systems may produce similar data that needs to be combined vertically. That is, the rows need to be stacked on top of one another. A use case we'll use in this recipe is combining sales data from two different sales systems, in order to get the total sales dataset prepared. This is a typical scenario you may encounter when your organization is operating multiple systems, is migrating from one system to another, is maintaining legacy systems, or is integrating systems from a partner or acquired company. In this recipe, we'll combine multiple datasets using Union.

Getting ready

To follow along with this recipe, download the Sample Files 5.1 folder from this book's GitHub repository.

How to do it…

Start by opening Tableau Prep and perform the following steps:

  1. Connect to the DataExport_NOV_Sales.csv text file in order to create a brand-new flow with a data connection...
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