Prepare Your Data for Tableau: A Practical Guide to the Tableau Data Prep Tool (eBook PDF) – Digital Ebook – Instant Delivery Download

Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1484254961
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1484254967
• Author:  Tim Costello, Lori Blackshear

Focus on the most important and most often overlooked factor in a successful Tableau project―data. Without a reliable data source, you will not achieve the results you hope for in Tableau. This book does more than teach the mechanics of data preparation. It teaches you: how to look at data in a new way, to recognize the most common issues that hinder analytics, and how to mitigate those factors one by one.

Tableau can change the course of business, but the old adage of “garbage in, garbage out” is the hard truth that hides behind every Tableau sales pitch. That amazing sales demo does not work as well with bad data. The unfortunate reality is that almost all data starts out in a less-than-perfect state. Data prep is hard.

Table contents:

Part I: Getting Started

Chapter 1: Getting to Know the Tableau Data Prep Tool

Part II: Connecting To Data

Chapter 2: The Input Step: Connecting to Data

Chapter 3: The Cleaning Step: The Heavy Lifting Happens Here

Chapter 4: The Group and Replace Step: It’s Like a Magic Wand for Inconsistent Data

Chapter 5: The Data Profile Card: It’s Like a Super Power Only Better

Part III: Data Shaping

Chapter 6: The Pivot Step: Reshaping Data 101

Chapter 7: The Aggregate Step: Group and Summarize Data

Part IV: Additional Data Sources

Chapter 8: Joins: Bringing It All Together

Chapter 9: Union Joins: Joins, Only Better

Part V: Output

Chapter 10: The Output Step: This Is What It’s All About

Chapter 11: Saving and Sharing Data Flows: Sharing Is Caring

Part VI: Prepping Data in Tableau Desktop

Chapter 12: Connecting to Data: Sometimes Simple Is Better

Chapter 13: Cleaning Data: Your Checklist for a Solid Start

Chapter 14: Metadata Management and Setting Defaults: Do These Things In Every Connection, You Can Thank Me Later

Chapter 15: Saving and Publishing Data Sources: Sharing is Caring (Second Verse, Same As The First)

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