Tableau Public Training

Focus on: Data Preparation

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The process: from idea to viz

• Search for data

• Clean and prepare data set
• (Visually) analyze data In Tableau Desktop (Public Edition)
• Create charts for publication
• Save to public.tableau.com,
and share or embed in webpage
Today’s topic: Cleaning and preparing data

1. Ideal format of data

2. Data interpreter – part I
3. Data interpreter – part II
4. Joins & Blending
5. Unions
6. Splits & Custom splits
7. Pivots (reshaping wide -> tall)

Time permitting, also:

• Using Measure Names & Measure Values (“on the fly pivot” )
• Reshaping tall -> wide (Using calculated fields)
• Text operations in calculated fields
Join
Adding new columns to a data set, with the same rows
Union
Adding new rows to a data set, with the same columns
Pivot
Reshaping from “wide” to “tall”
Reshaping from “tall” to “wide”
Using calculated fields
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