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Tableau Prep
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This two-day hands-on course will teach you how to use Tableau Prep, Tableau’s data preparation, data cleansing, and ETL tool. In this course, you will learn how to get your data in the right format for optimal efficiency while in Tableau itself.
Audience:
Course Duration:
2 Days
Prerequisites:
Prior experience using Tableau, joining data in Tableau, and working with calculations
Course Objectives:
Course Outline:
Introduction to the workspace
Data cleansing and preparation concepts, such as joins, unions, wildcard matches, fuzzy matching, and addressing nulls, irregularities and outliers
When to do your data preparation in Tableau Prep vs. the normal Tableau Desktop
Understand data sampling
Connecting to and configuring data
Exploring data
How to create workflows
Preferred data structures in Tableau
Cleaning data
Shaping data
Combining data
Joining and unioning data
Opening a data sample and creating an output file
Best practices for data preparation
Complex flows
Exporting to various Tableau formats
Validating results
At the end of the course, students will be able to overcome many of their thorniest data cleaning and preparation issues, enabling their Tableau analysis and visualization process to be smoother and easier. In some cases, it can replace or ease data prep challenges being solved in other ways currently, such as using SAS for ETL processes or waiting long periods of time for IT to get the data just so, or doing a lot of manual rework in Excel.
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