Tableau Prep
Tableau Prep
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What is Tableau Prep?
Tableau Prep enables users to get to the analysis phase faster by helping them quickly combine, shape, and clean their data.
According to the vendor, a direct and visual experience helps provide users with a deeper understanding of their data, smart features make data preparation simple, and integration with the Tableau analytical workflow allows for faster speed to insight. Tableau Prep allows users to connect to data on-premises or in the cloud, whether it’s a database or a spreadsheet, and access, combine and clean disparate data without writing code. Easy sharing reduces friction and helps users bridge the gap between data preparation and analytics, for better business results.
Tableau helps people and organizations become more data-driven. With an integrated platform that is easy to start and scale, Tableau supports the entire analytics journey, from data preparation, to deep analysis, to the shared insights that drive the business forward.
According to the vendor, a direct and visual experience helps provide users with a deeper understanding of their data, smart features make data preparation simple, and integration with the Tableau analytical workflow allows for faster speed to insight. Tableau Prep allows users to connect to data on-premises or in the cloud, whether it’s a database or a spreadsheet, and access, combine and clean disparate data without writing code. Easy sharing reduces friction and helps users bridge the gap between data preparation and analytics, for better business results.
Tableau helps people and organizations become more data-driven. With an integrated platform that is easy to start and scale, Tableau supports the entire analytics journey, from data preparation, to deep analysis, to the shared insights that drive the business forward.
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The most common users of Tableau Prep are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees) and the Information Technology & Services industry.
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March 14, 2022
Powerful, convenient and easy!
Tableau Prep is used for re-creating an ETL workflow to connect data sources, clean data and then combining it to perform joins, and in generating a final output to use operations like pivot, join, rename, union and the control flow plane. Tableau Prep also helps with exploring the data to figure out data quality issues and in creating calculated fields for analysis.
- Data Cleansing
- Automation
- Joins
- Use of Macros within Workflow (and more types of automation)
- Join Editor also giving a SQL Update Query
- More types of visuals
August 26, 2021
Tableau Prep is great prep for your work!
[Tableau Prep] is used by the commercial side of our organization to clean up data sets before we create dashboards or run analytics/data science projects. Some of the data sets can have missing or erroneous values and Tableau Prep helps to point out such situations so that we can address them before creating visualizations.
- Display the raw data coming in from the data warehouse
- Point out situations that might be erroneous
- Show the distribution of raw data figures
- Should allow you to connect to more databases and platforms
- Allow clearer initial visualizations
- Run through data quicker
October 07, 2020
Good basic ETL option
We use it to prepare data from multiple sources for report generation.
- Clean data
- Join data files
- Create calculated values
- Output to CSV
- More output options
- Allow SQL code to input data files for prep
- Allow row level edits/deletes
February 18, 2020
Tableau Prep your way to cleaner data!
We have been using Tableau Prep to prepare simple data sets for analysis in Tableau. We do not use it for more complex data but it definitely helps with smaller, simpler data sets. we have most of our Tableau Desktop users utilizing Tableau Prep when needed, but when we do more complex data cleaning and prep we use Alteryx.
- Easy to use
- Integrates perfectly with Tableau
- Can be sluggish when making a lot of changes
- Not as robust as other software on the market
February 04, 2020
Great tool for data cleaning, manipulation and consolidation--and a huge time saver
We use Prep in our finance department to connect to our live data (Microsoft GP) to consolidate with our budget files to produce an output that is clean and thoroughly categorized and ready to be used consistently across Tableau workbooks, allowing us to more easily produce reports to be published on our server. We also use Prep to pull in several invoices (for example, cellular, shipping, etc) to reformat the output such that it is organized and clean for accounts payable to enter into our system.
- Data cleaning.
- Data exploration/validation.
- Automated flows.
- Bug fixes with updates.
June 11, 2019
Great product for the right task!
We did a pilot to use prep to sync data between our reservoir engineering software/database for forecasts -PHDWIN and actuals in SAP. The prep tool was used to sync the datasets and prepare them for visualization. This was used instead of using Tableau straight to sync the datasets. The outcome of the pilot was that the tool was more robust, but we chose not to do it in order to add more software/tools to the data chain.
- Sync data
- Match
- Repeatable results
- A stand alone product vs integrated
- More training of a specialized tool