Tableau Prep for Data Analysis & Business Intelligence

Tableau Prep is an industry-leading data prep tool, with intuitive tools for combining, shaping, and cleaning raw data for analysis. With data prep often accounting for >80% of the data analytics workflow, these skills are critical for any analyst or business intelligence pro. This course is a practical, hands-on, and project-based introduction to Tableau Prep and Tableau Prep Builder, designed to teach you how to connect to sources, examine and filter data, apply operations and custom calculations, join and pivot tables, and share data outputs.

As always, we'll be applying these tools to real-world business intelligence use cases every step of the way. Throughout the course, you'll be playing the role of Data Analyst for Maven Charter Schools, an up-and-coming private institution. Your mission.

Use Tableau Prep, and the skills you learn throughout the course, to prepare data from a variety of sources, including teacher pay, SAT scores, graduation rates, and more. But don't worry, we'll be guiding you each step of the way, with crystal clear explanations and helpful pro tips to help you build your Tableau Prep skills. We'll start with how to connect and configure sources, and apply operations for grouping, splitting and cleaning data.

From there, we'll create custom LOD and analytic calculations, and use tools to join, aggregate and transform tables. Finally, we'll review options for saving, updating, and publishing data outputs, along with tools to automate and share flows built with Tableau Prep. COURSE OUTLINE:Introducing Tableau PrepTableau Prep download, user roles, workspace, visual dictionary, data design, etc.