From the course: Everybody's Introduction to Tableau (2022)

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What is Tableau Prep?

What is Tableau Prep?

- You have your data, it's been loaded into the database and you develop some analysis and present a draft to your team to make sure you're on the right track. It turns out, the data needs cleansing or transformation to get to the heart of the answer and those Sequel skills you hoped you'd never have to call up, are now being called into action. You'll probably be spending some time here on LinkedIn Learning, learning some more of those skills. Data prep is one of the most underrated prerequisites of data analysis, yet in many instances, it's almost vital to help bring together data sets and make sure context is appropriately represented and insight relevant. Earlier, we also talked about the abundance and fast pace at which data is being generated and consumed. This in turn scales the challenges businesses see with one of the most common examples being a difference in the way data is captured, stored and consumed,…

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