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Tableau 10 Business Intelligence Cookbook

You're reading from   Tableau 10 Business Intelligence Cookbook Create powerful, effective visualizations with Tableau 10

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786465634
Length 476 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Donabel Santos Donabel Santos
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Basic Charts FREE CHAPTER 2. Advanced Charts 3. Interactivity 4. Dashboards and Story Points 5. Maps and Geospatial Visualization 6. Analytics 7. Data Preparation A. Calculated Fields Primer B. Resources Index

Using the Data Interpreter and pivot


In this recipe, we will clean up the following spreadsheet on Canada international student permits and ready it for Tableau:

Getting ready

To follow this recipe, download the file from the Citizenship and Immigration Canada website using the following URL:

http://www.cic.gc.ca/opendata-donneesouvertes/data/IRCC_IS_0004_E.xls

How to do it...

Here are the steps to clean up the file:

  1. Connect to the Excel file in this recipe. Make sure you choose Excel from the To a File section:

  2. Check the checkbox beside Use Data Interpreter. Note that when this checkbox is checked, the label changes to Cleaned with Data Interpreter:

  3. Select all fields except for Destination.

  4. While the fields are selected, right-click and choose Pivot:

  5. Right-click the new fields to rename them:

    • Change Pivot Field Names to Period

    • Change Pivot Field Values to International Students

  6. Click on Add underneath Filters:

  7. In the Select a field: option, choose Period:

  8. In the filter window for Period, under the...

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