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Job Role

Business Analyst, Consultant, End User, Marketer, Business User

Duration

In-Person: 2 Full Day(s)
Virtual: 2 Full Day(s) or 4 Half Day(s)

Overview

Who should take this course?


This course is designed for analysts, business users, and consultants who are responsible for managing data with Tableau Prep Builder. Students should have at least three months of experience creating calculations in Tableau.


When you complete this course, you will be able to:


  • Prepare your data for analysis in Tableau visualizations.
  • Apply quick-cleaning operations to fields and field values.
  • Clean data with calculated fields, filters, and grouping options.
  • Combine data using joins and unions.
  • Shape data using pivots and aggregations.
  • Validate your data preparation work.
  • Generate outputs.
  • Leverage the data sampling functionality of Tableau Prep Builder.
  • Apply the range of available data preparation techniques to flows that address real-world scenarios.

Prework

Prepare for the course with this Trailmix.

Class Registration

Lessons and Topics

Introduction to Tableau Prep Builder

  • Implement Data Preparation and the Analytic Cycle
  • Navigate Tableau Prep Builder
  • Describe the Tableau Prep Builder Workspace
  • Flow Pane Steps
  • Prep Your Data

 

Data Connection and Exploration

  • Connect to Data
  • Interpret Data
  • Configure Data for Input
  • Explore the Data
  • Distribute Data

 

Clean Data

  • Conduct Cleaning Operations
  • Facilitate Quick-Cleaning Operations for String Fields
  • Enable Quick-Cleaning Operations for Date Fields
  • Filter Values
  • Clean with Calculated Fields
  • Edit and Group Values
  • Create and Use Parameters
  • Review Recorded Changes

 

Data Combination

  • Create Unions
  • Evaluate Union Results
  • Fix Mismatched Fields
  • Generate Wildcard Unions
  • Implement Joins
  • Define Join Types
  • Create and Configure Joins
  • Evaluate Join Results

 

Data Shaping

  • Create and Configure Pivots
  • Generate Columns to Rows Pivots
  • Pivot Using Wildcard Search
  • Build Rows to Columns Pivots
  • Evaluate Pivot Results
  • Create and Configure Aggregations

 

Data Previews and Sharing

  • Preview Data Preparation Results
  • Create Outputs
  • Run Outputs
  • Conduct an Incremental Refresh
  • Write to External Database

 

Data Sampling

  • Sample Data
  • Distribute Sampling and Data
  • Preview Sample Data
  • Determine Outputs for Sampled Data

 

Data Preparation

  • Determine Data Preparation Steps
  • Follow the Data Preparation Checklist
  • Explore Real-World Data Preparation Scenarios