Data Preparation and CLEANING WITH Tableau Prep

Outline

    • Introduction to the workspace

      • Exploring the Tableau Prep Builder interface

      • How to connect your dataset with Tableau Prep

      • Ways of filtering and analyzing the information in the dataset

    • How to use the Tableau Prep to clean the dataset

    • Table operations

      • Is it possible to aggregate information by using Tableau Prep?

      • How to merge different steps

      • Saving a cleaned dataset for visualization in Tableau Desktop

    • What's the averaged trend of COVID-19 cases across different South Carolina's counties? (Moving averages)

    • Homework

PREREQUISITES FOR THE WORKSHOP

  1. Download the Tableau Prep here: https://www.tableau.com/products/prep/download

  2. In order to follow the workshop materials, please download the COVID-19 dataset in the US at the county level extracted on October 26, 2020 from New York Times repository (reference: https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data): https://bit.ly/2G02eOW

INSTRUCTOR

Kaitlyn Samons, Data Visualization Instructor

Clemson Data Visualization Lab

E-mail: ksamons@g.clemson.edu