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Tableau Prep Building for Experienced Users
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Next-Level Tableau | Gain Skills to Clean, Prepare and Shape Data in Tableau & Create Useful Tableau Prep Flows
ID:TTDTAB010
Duration:2 Days
Level:Intermediate
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What You'll Learn

Overview

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Geared for experienced Tableau Users, Tableau Prep Building (Tableau Data Prep) for Experienced Users is a two-day hands-on course designed to provide you with the tools and knowledge of how to prepare and shape data in Tableau Prep. It's best suited for people who have 3-6 months experience in Tableau Desktop and are somewhat familiar with writing calculations. Throughout the course, our instructors will take you from conceptual data preparation material to creating useful Tableau Prep flows that can be output to Tableau Desktop for analysis. 

 

NOTE: The Tableau Training Series is independent-format training that can be tuned and adjusted to best meet your needs. Our materials are flexible, comprehensive, and are always instructed by a senior instructor with a deep understanding of Tableau and its most current features, benefits and functionality in a wide array of uses. This is not Official Tableau Training. 

 

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Objectives

Working in a hands-on learning environment led by our expert facilitator, students will learn how to: 

  • Understand what data works best with Tableau Desktop and how to shape and clean it appropriately to get 
  • Learn how to maximize flexibility from Tableau Desktop. 
  • Learn how Tableau Prep folds into the analytic cycle, and when to prep data in Tableau Prep vs. Tableau Desktop. 
  • Understand the terminology used in Tableau Prep. 
  • Know how Tableau Prep approaches data sampling. 
  • Create and understand data prep flows that address common scenarios encountered in data preparation, as applied to common data use cases 
  • Know how to view data prepared in Tableau Prep using Tableau Desktop. 
  • Understand data exploration and validation in Tableau Prep and Tableau Desktop. 

 

Need different skills or topics? If your team requires different topics or tools, additional skills or custom approach, this course may be further adjusted to accommodate. We offer additional Tableau, reporting, data analytics, visualization and other related topics that may be blended with this course for a track that best suits your needs.  

Audience

This is an Intermediate and beyond-level Tableau course geared for experienced Tableau users who wish to leverage Tableau's more advanced capabilities. 

Pre-Requisites

 Take Before: Students should have experience in the topics below or should take one of the following as a pre-requisite: 

  • TTDTAB001 Introduction to Tableau | Tableau JumpStart (1 day) 
  • TTDTAB002 Tableau QuickStart (2 days) 
  • TTDTAB004 JumpStart Great Data Visualization with Tableau Desktop (for New Users) (3 days) 
  • TTDTAB006 Tableau Desktop Fundamentals (2 days) 

Tableau Desktop Fundamentals

Agenda

Please note that this list of topics is based on our standard course offering, evolved from typical industry uses and trends. We will work with you to tune this course and level of coverage to target the skills you need most. Course agenda, topics and labs are subject to adjust during live delivery in response to student skill level, interests and participation.  

 

  •  Introduction to the workspace 
  • Introduction to the workflow 
  • Data literacy concepts 
  • Connecting to and configuring data 
  • Exploring data 
  • Cleaning data 
  • Preferred data structures in Tableau 
  • Shaping data 
  • Combining data 
  • Opening a data sample and creating an output file 
  • Best practices for data preparation 
  • Complex flows 
  • Starting with a question 
  • Hands-on data preparation 

 

Related Courses

Tableau Desktop Fundamentals
Tableau Desktop II / Intermediate Tableau Desktop
Advanced Tableau

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