A bird’s eye view of Tableau Prep’s appealing UI Curious about how Tableau Prep can help? Joshua Milligan who is a data consultant with a reputed firm loves the elements of fluidity and transparency in the Data Visualization tool, Tableau and strongly feels that Tableau Prep only adds more to the magic in terms of intuitiveness and seamlessness. The ETL tool primarily automates, joins, unions, pivots and aggregates via a drag and drop visual interface to streamline all the common tasks. Tableau Prep, according to him, is designed as a self-service tool to reshape data without scripting or coding to address the common data management problem. They have been silently screaming for automation, artificial intelligence and machine learning to automate data. And this has always been a constant concern for large enterprises and analytics vendors. Why Tableau Prep?įrancois Ajenstat, Tableau’s chief product officer, feels that companies unfortunately spend 80 percent of their time on Data Preparation and only 20 percent on analysis despite of the latter being a higher value task.

csv files for use with other applications. Tableau Prep is also compatible with older versions of Tableau products, all the way down to Tableau 10.0 and can output. It is as intuitive as the Tableau Desktop & Server and works flawlessly in tandem with both. With the Data Visualization Tool, Tableau now has a personal data preparation and ETL tool among its suite of products to prepare data for easily analysis. Empower yourself with the ability to gather, merge, clean, shape and prepare your data for analysis in Tableau using Tableau Prep.

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