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Tableau Prep Builder

Learn Tableau Prep Builder covering data preparation, ETL operations, flow management, advanced transformations and cloud integration for dashboard creation.

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  • Skill level

    Intermediate

  • Time to complete

    Approx. 7 hours

  • Certificate of completion

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About this skill path

The Tableau Prep Builder Journey is designed to equip learners with comprehensive skills in data preparation, transformation, and integration using Tableau Prep. This journey covers foundational concepts, advanced data manipulation techniques, and best practices for optimizing data flows. Learners will begin by exploring Tableau’s ecosystem and mastering essential tools such as Tableau Desktop, Tableau Cloud, and Tableau Server. They will develop key skills in building and managing data flows, performing ETL operations, and integrating diverse data sources like PostgreSQL, Google Drive, BigQuery, and Amazon S3. The journey also introduces powerful data cleaning techniques, error detection using data roles, and strategies for transforming data using pivot steps, joins, and calculated fields. By the end of this journey, learners will be able to create efficient data flows, apply advanced transformations, parameterize inputs and outputs, and publish flows to Tableau Cloud for seamless integration into Tableau dashboards.

Syllabus

  • Track 1: Tableau Prep Builder

    In this track, you will explore the Tableau ecosystem; simple flows; Tableau Prep with PostgreSQL, Google Drive, Big Query, and Amazon 3; data roles; parameters; calculated fields; and more.

    course The Tableau Ecosystem and Tableau Prep Builder
    course Simple Flows in Tableau Prep Builder
    course Tableau Prep with PostgreSQL, Google Drive and BigQuery, and Amazon S3
    course Data Roles, New Rows, and the Clean Step in Tableau Prep Builder
    course The Pivot Step, Parameters in Flows, and Publishing to Tableau Cloud
    course Joins, Aggregations, Calculated Fields, and Incremental Refresh in Tableau Prep
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