Tableau Public Training Focus on: Data Preparation Introductory Training Audio Broadcast will start when you join You should automatically be connected to audio and see the ‘Audio Broadcast’ menu. Sound should stream once the webinar starts. You will automatically be put on mute when you join the meeting. Team Tableau Public: Email: public@tableau.com Twitter: @tableaupublic

The process: from idea to viz Search for data Clean and prepare data set (Visually) analyze data Create charts for publication Save to public.tableau.com, and share or embed in webpage In Tableau Desktop (Public Edition)

Today’s topic: Cleaning and preparing data Ideal format of data Data interpreter – part I Data interpreter – part II Joins & Blending Unions Splits & Custom splits 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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