I didn’t know about it, but there’s even a periodic table of Alteryx tools! However, the range of tools offered by Prep is quite limited compared to Alteryx. Tableau Prep is an alternative to Alteryx for some more basic data cleaning. A periodic table of tools? Alteryx wins 1–0. How about a hospital? Read about it in my other post. Collect data at a different level of granularity (attendance by week or by day?) or in a way that doesn’t help them get the answers they want.Some organizations or companies might not want to invest in Alteryx, or they might not need it to satisfy their data cleaning needs.
Tableau Prep has a specific tool to do just that. You might be able to do some of these data cleaning tasks even in Tableau Public and Desktop, namely:Īs an example, you can create a Pivot on Tableau Public/Desktop by clicking on the columns to pivot. Tableau Prep allows you to do those tasks using Tableau. You probably did it to conduct the analysis you needed and create the charts you wanted. You may have spent a lot of time putting your dataset in the right format in Excel. The short answer is data cleaning and data preparation. So, after a few “personal brand” tips that Emily shared at the end of the day, I had lots of workflows open and a dashboard that still had to come to life.īut before sharing what I created (in another post), let’s answer a few questions first: What is Tableau Prep for? I had to leave for a few hours in the morning. Finding a dataset to clean using Tableau Prep,.We spent the morning going through Tableau Prep tools and some practical examples. I look forward to having her back for some trickier subjects! Emily came in last week to teach us Tableau Prep.Īlthough the topic was not the most exciting one, I loved her teaching style.
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