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📊 Tableau Prep Builder

Chapter: Tableau · Level ★★☆ · Time: 30 min
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Flow-based data cleaningClean/shape stepsJoins and unions in PrepOutput to hyper/csv
📚 Quick Recap

Real-world data is almost never analysis-ready. It arrives from multiple systems in inconsistent formats, with wrong data types, merged columns, duplicate rows, and mismatched naming conventions. Tableau Prep Builder is a dedicated ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) tool that lets you visually build data preparation flows — cleaning, reshaping, and combining data before it reaches Tableau Desktop. Mastering Prep makes you dramatically more self-sufficient as an analyst.

🧠 Section A · Concept Check ● BEGINNER 4 × 1 = 4

1Prep organises work as a:
2Fixing typos/casing happens in a:
3Turning wide to tall data is:
4Prep outputs commonly to:

🧮 Section B · Problem Solving ● INTERMEDIATE 2 + 3×3 = 11

5Each transformation is a in the flow.
6Profile pane shows value for quick auditing.
7Why clean in Prep instead of Desktop calcs?
8Messy city names - Prep fix?
9Combine 12 monthly CSVs?

🚀 Section C · Challenge ● CHALLENGE 5

10What does the profile pane help catch?
💭 Reflection — the most useful thing I learned:
A ___/4   B ___/11   C ___/5   Total ___/20 Teacher's Signature Parent's Signature
✂ answer key — fold or cut before handing out

1-A   2-A   3-A   4-A  |  5 step   6 distributions   7 = Reusable, visual, auditable pipeline before analysis   8 = Clean step - Group Values by spelling/pronunciation   9 = Wildcard union in the input step  |  10 = Outliers, nulls, weird distributions instantly

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