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Tableau Desktop is a data visualization tool that allows users to clean and visualize large, complex datasets. It is preferable to Excel for tasks involving large amounts of data from multiple sources due to its speed, interactive dashboards, and user-friendly interface. Tableau supports various data types and can connect to different data sources. The data cleaning and visualization process in Tableau involves collecting, cleaning, and transforming data, and then creating visualizations.

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Tableau Desktop is a data visualization tool that allows users to clean and visualize large, complex datasets. It is preferable to Excel for tasks involving large amounts of data from multiple sources due to its speed, interactive dashboards, and user-friendly interface. Tableau supports various data types and can connect to different data sources. The data cleaning and visualization process in Tableau involves collecting, cleaning, and transforming data, and then creating visualizations.

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Tableau Desktop

Tableau Desktop is used for Cleaning as well as


Visualization.
Why we Prefer Tableau over Excel
 Large amount of data
 Multiple Connections
 Speed
 Interactive dashboard
 User-friendly
Note: - We prefer text file over excel file in Tableau because it has
no limitation of data and it can open on more platforms.
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Tableau provide 5 products:


 Tableau Desktop (Tableau prep [Use for cleaning])
 Tableau server
 Tableau Online
 Tableau Reader
 Tableau Public
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Data Types used in Tableau


 Numeric(whole)
 Numeric (Decimal)
 String (ABC)
 Date (Calendar)
 Date & Time (Calendar with Watch)
 Boolean (T|F)
 Geographic Roles (Globe)
Steps in Tableau
 Data Collection
 Data Cleaning [Remove Null variables, Remove Outliers, Making
new Columns according to the requirements, connection]
 Data Visualization
We can connect data in tableau from server, files and database.
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Data Joining
Join
 we work according to columns
 one column should be common
 work on attributes
Union
 we work according to rows
 no. of columns should be same in both the sheets

LIVE AND EXTRACT


 Live is a dynamic data
 Extract act as a snapshot and it is static.

Dimension is Categorical value


E.g. States of the country
Measure is a numeric value
E.g. Sales
Data Joining & Data Blending
 Joining is combining data from same or single data source
 Blending is combining data from different data source.
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Data Cleaning
On Columns
 Naming Convention
 Dimensionality Reduction [ID, Remove Redundancy {Dependent
& Independent column}, Remove Dependent column, Co-
relation]
 Handling Definition
On Rows
 Remove NA, Null Value
 Outliers
 Normalization
 Subsetting

COST Cutting Theorem

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