Collecting and Preparing Data for Tableau Desktop

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Pooja Gandhi

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00. Course Overview

00. Course Overview.mp4

01:53

01. Getting Your Data into Tableau

00. Overview.mp4

01:49

01. Common File-based Connections.mp4

05:47

02. Other File-based Connections.mp4

03:34

03. Server-based Connections.mp4

07:30

04. Web Data Connectors.mp4

03:58

05. Summary.mp4

02:01

02. Preparing Data for Use

00. Overview.mp4

00:42

01. Data Interpreter.mp4

03:24

02. Transform Your Data.mp4

04:04

03. Union Your Data.mp4

03:33

04. Summary.mp4

00:55

03. Joining Multiple Sources of Data

00. Overview.mp4

01:23

01. Same Database Joins.mp4

06:20

02. Cross Database Joins.mp4

05:27

03. Join via Calculations.mp4

04:42

04. Summary.mp4

01:13

04. Extracting Data for Performance

00. Overview.mp4

04:03

01. Connection Types.mp4

03:12

02. Configuring Your Data Source.mp4

02:22

03. Configuring Your Extract.mp4

03:33

04. Summary.mp4

01:13

05. Blending Supplementary Data Sources

00. Overview.mp4

02:19

01. Data Blending Steps.mp4

05:49

02. Summary.mp4

02:33

Description

Get to know how you can collect, prepare and transform your data in Tableau. Learn how you can effectively use Tableau's fast analytic processing capabilities to perform tasks like joins, blend and unions.

What You'll Learn?

At the core of Tableau is its fast analytics capabilities that allows you to connect to and analyze almost any database. In this course, Collecting and Preparing Data for Tableau Desktop, you will learn foundational knowledge of collecting, preparing and transforming your data. First you will learn, connecting to different types of files and servers. Next you will discover how you can union and join your data to create cohesive datasets. Finally, you will learn the differences between using live connections and data extracts. When you’re finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge needed to collect, prepare and transform your data in order to successfully perform analysis.

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Pooja Gandhi

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Pooja joined Pluralsight in 2018 as a Lead Analytics Engineer. She is a recognized 2x Tableau Zen Master and an accomplished analytics and visualizations practitioner. As an expert in her field, Pooja has spoken about her passion for data at various different conferences globally. Together with Adam Crahen of Pluralsight, she co-founded thedataduo.com where they feature a large gallery of data visualizations on a variety of different topics. The work by The Data Duo has made an appearance on UNICEF, United Nations and several news organizations world-wide. In the past, Pooja has worked for leading companies like Comcast NBCUniversal, GlaxoSmithKline and Dow Chemicals.

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Pluralsight, LLC is an American privately held online education company that offers a variety of video training courses for software developers, IT administrators, and creative professionals through its website. Founded in 2004 by Aaron Skonnard, Keith Brown, Fritz Onion, and Bill Williams, the company has its headquarters in Farmington, Utah. As of July 2018, it uses more than 1,400 subject-matter experts as authors, and offers more than 7,000 courses in its catalog. Since first moving its courses online in 2007, the company has expanded, developing a full enterprise platform, and adding skills assessment modules.