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What is Tableau Prep?
Self-service data preparation
Regardless of your skill level with data preparation, Tableau Prep makes it easier to combine, clean, shape, and share your data. With a visual interface giving a complete picture of the data and smart features to make cleaning, automating and administering easier than ever, Tableau Prep will help your organization role out a complete, self-service data preparation solution.
Tableau Prep is comprised of two products:
Prep Builder
Combine, shape, and clean your data for analysis with Prep Builder.
Prep Conductor
Share, scale, and customize your data flows with Prep Conductor.*
*Tableau Prep Conductor is a part of Data Management capabilities
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Connect & Shape Data
Get the data you need, in the right shape with Prep Builder.
Join or union
Creating the correct join or union has never been easier – see the results immediately and adjust if necessary.
Pivot
Pivot from columns to rows or rows to columns to get the results you want from your data.
Clean
Prep Builder makes dirty data a thing of the past.
Change data role
Quickly change the data type of a field to make your analysis consistent.
Filter
Keep only the relevant and necessary data by filtering out whatever you don’t need for analysis.
Aggregate
Adjust the granularity of your data to either reduce the amount of data produced or align your data across data sources.
Group & Replace
Take some of the monotony out of the manual data cleaning steps by updating multiple values at once.
Run Flow
Run your flow to get outputs and start analyzing your prepped data
Preview in Desktop
With just a quick click, it’s easy to open your Prep Builder output in Tableau Desktop, making staying in the flow of your analysis seamless.
Start analysis in Desktop
Now that the data is clean, it’s time to save the output and start doing your deeper analysis.
Publish
Share your freshly cleaned data.
Publish extract
Leverage Tableau’s data and Hyper engine to package your Prep Builder data flow into an extract.
Publish flow
With Prep Conductor, you can publish your flow to run in your Server environment. Schedule when your data flow should run, how often, and who can have access to it.
Monitoring & Alerting
Know your data is always up to date.
Monitor
Keep an eye on your data flows in Prep Conductor to make sure they’ve run as expected.
Alerts
Use Prep Conductor to receive notifications if your data flow doesn’t run.
More ways to learn
Training
Instructor-led and self-paced training options to help you learn the ins and outs of Tableau Prep
Tableau Prep Blog
We curated all the ways to learn Tableau Prep in this blog post.
Tableau Prep Skill Pills
Get a walk-through of key features of Prep Builder, and how to use them, by our very own Product Managers.