Tableau Certified Data Analyst: Connect to and Transform Data
Tableau is a powerful analytics tool, and all Tableau projects begin with data. This course will teach you how to connect to various data sources and how to transform your data to prepare for further analysis and visualization.
What you'll learn
As you use Tableau to create data visualizations and analysis, you spend lots of time working with data. But how do you get that data into Tableau to get started on your analytics project?
In this course, Tableau Certified Data Analyst: Connect to and Transform Data, you will learn how to get your data into Tableau and prepare it for further analysis.
First, you’ll learn about the different types of data sources you can load into Tableau, and how to connect to common ones.
Then, you’ll learn how to clean and transform your data.
Next, you’ll look at how to customize data fields and organize your data to prepare it for analysis.
When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the knowledge of Tableau needed to load your data into the application and prepare it for your next data visualization project!
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About the author
Jason Browning is a data and analytics professional with extensive experience in both the public and private sector, currently serving as the chief data officer at Montana State University. As a Tableau Desktop Certified Professional, Jason loves to build data visualizations that both inform and inspire. He is capable of wrangling messy data both inside and outside of Tableau, and using SQL to perform complex queries. He holds a Ph.D. in higher education administration from the University of Wy... more