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Tableau 10 Business Intelligence Cookbook

By : Donabel Santos, Paul Banoub
Book Image

Tableau 10 Business Intelligence Cookbook

By: Donabel Santos, Paul Banoub

Overview of this book

Tableau is a software tool that can speed up data analysis through its rich visualization capabilities, and help uncover insights for better and smarter decision making. This book is for the business, technology, data and analytics professionals who use and analyze data and data-driven approaches to support business operations and strategic initiatives in their organizations. This book provides easy-to-follow recipes to get the reader up and running with Tableau 10, and covers basic to advanced use cases and scenarios. The book starts with building basic charts in Tableau and moves on to building more complex charts by incorporating different Tableau features and interactivity components. There is an entire chapter dedicated to dashboard techniques and best practices. A number of recipes specifically for geospatial visualization, analytics, and data preparation are also covered. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained confidence and competence to analyze and communicate data and insights more efficiently and effectively by creating compelling interactive charts, dashboards, and stories in Tableau.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Tableau 10 Business Intelligence Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using the Data Interpreter and pivot


In this recipe, we will clean up the following spreadsheet on Canada international student permits and ready it for Tableau:

Getting ready

To follow this recipe, download the file from the Citizenship and Immigration Canada website using the following URL:

http://www.cic.gc.ca/opendata-donneesouvertes/data/IRCC_IS_0004_E.xls

How to do it...

Here are the steps to clean up the file:

  1. Connect to the Excel file in this recipe. Make sure you choose Excel from the To a File section:

  2. Check the checkbox beside Use Data Interpreter. Note that when this checkbox is checked, the label changes to Cleaned with Data Interpreter:

  3. Select all fields except for Destination.

  4. While the fields are selected, right-click and choose Pivot:

  5. Right-click the new fields to rename them:

    • Change Pivot Field Names to Period

    • Change Pivot Field Values to International Students

  6. Click on Add underneath Filters:

  7. In the Select a field: option, choose Period:

  8. In the filter window for Period, under the...