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Learning Tableau 2020

You're reading from   Learning Tableau 2020 Create effective data visualizations, build interactive visual analytics, and transform your organization

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800200364
Length 576 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Joshua N. Milligan Joshua N. Milligan
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Taking Off with Tableau 2. Connecting to Data in Tableau FREE CHAPTER 3. Moving Beyond Basic Visualizations 4. Starting an Adventure with Calculations and Parameters 5. Leveraging Level of Detail Calculations 6. Diving Deep with Table Calculations 7. Making Visualizations That Look Great and Work Well 8. Telling a Data Story with Dashboards 9. Visual Analytics – Trends, Clustering, Distributions, and Forecasting 10. Advanced Visualizations 11. Dynamic Dashboards 12. Exploring Mapping and Advanced Geospatial Features 13. Understanding the Tableau Data Model, Joins, and Blends 14. Structuring Messy Data to Work Well in Tableau 15. Taming Data with Tableau Prep 16. Sharing Your Data Story 17. Other Books You May Enjoy
18. Index

Taming Data with Tableau Prep

We considered some options for structuring data in Tableau Desktop in the previous chapter. Many of the concepts around well-structured data will apply here as we now turn our attention to another product from Tableau: Tableau Prep. Tableau Prep extends the Tableau platform with robust options for cleaning and structuring data for analysis in Tableau. In the same way that Tableau Desktop provides a hands-on, visual experience for visualizing and analyzing data, Tableau Prep provides a hands-on, visual experience for cleaning and shaping data.

Tableau Prep is on an accelerated, monthly release cycle and while the platform continues to grow and expand, there is an underlying paradigm that sets a foundation for cleaning and shaping data. We'll cover a lot of ground in this chapter, but our goal is not to cover every possible feature—and indeed, we won't. Instead, we will seek to understand the underlying paradigm and flow of thought...

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