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The Tableau Workshop

You're reading from   The Tableau Workshop A practical guide to the art of data visualization with Tableau

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800207653
Length 822 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Shweta Savale Shweta Savale
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Kenneth Michael Cherven Kenneth Michael Cherven
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Sumit Gupta Sumit Gupta
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Sylvester Pinto Sylvester Pinto
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JC Gillet JC Gillet
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Preface
1. Introduction: Visual Analytics with Tableau 2. Data Preparation: Using Tableau Desktop FREE CHAPTER 3. Data Preparation: Using Tableau Prep 4. Data Exploration: Comparison and Composition 5. Data Exploration: Distributions and Relationships 6. Data Exploration: Exploring Geographical Data 7. Data Analysis: Creating and Using Calculations 8. Data Analysis: Creating and Using Table Calculations 9. Data Analysis: Creating and Using Level of Details (LOD) Calculations 10. Dashboards and Storyboards 11. Tableau Interactivity: Part 1

Prep Interface

In this section, you will look at the options available in Tableau Prep for data transformation. Tableau Prep can be downloaded from the Tableau website (https://www.tableau.com/products/prep) and installed like any other program. You can find detailed installation steps in the Preface. Once the installation is complete, navigate to your desktop and click on the Tableau Prep icon to open it.

When you open Prep for the first time, it will look like this:

Figure 3.1: Prep start screen

The Connections tab (top-left corner), shows all data sources that can be connected in the prep. This is similar to the Connect pane in Tableau Desktop. (Chapter 2, Data Preparation Using Tableau Desktop.)

Figure 3.2: Data connections in Prep

Throughout this chapter, you will be working with file-based connections such as Excel spreadsheets and CSVs. First, let's look briefly at the other options available on the start screen (as...

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