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Data cleaning and transformation basics

Data cleaning and transformation basics - Tableau Tutorial

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Data cleaning and transformation basics

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- [Instructor] Data cleaning and transformation are key for efficiency. In other words, you need to adjust and refine your data to simplify your development. In Tableau, these tasks are straightforward and intuitive. In this video, we'll cover data cleaning, alias editing, and field renaming. Let's go to our tab 2.5, and you know where to go. Great. Make sure the data connection. First, I want to clean our entire data. Drag the industry to the rows. In the industry field, there's a value related to land that I'd like to exclude from all the data analysis. Well, we could use a filter, but we can make this exclusion stronger. How to do it? Do you remember? Yes. Right click on it, click exclude. And then from the filter, choose the filter. Go apply to worksheet and all using this data source. Good. All your data is excluding this field. Now, let's modify a value in the industry field. I want to change industrial to industrial process. It's quick and simple. Again, right click on it and…

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