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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

Embedding R code in a Tableau Prep flow

In the previous recipe, you learned how to configure your machine with R. You also set up a connection from Tableau Prep to R, using the Rserve package. In this recipe, we'll leverage that foundational setup to run an R script using Tableau Prep. We'll learn how to embed a script in our flow and understand how R sends the data back to our Tableau Prep data flow. The examples used are simple but form a solid foundation. Once you have mastered the basics, you'll be able to implement more advanced scripts, such as the script in the recipe titled Forecasting time series using R.

Getting ready

To follow along with this recipe, download the Sample Files 8.2 folder from this book's GitHub repository.

Important note

R is a programming language of its own, not covered by this book. We'll look at R code in this recipe at a very high level only, so you will gain sufficient knowledge to integrate R with Tableau Prep...

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