From the course: Hands-On Data Science using SQL, Tableau, Python, and Spark
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Exploring data visually in Tableau
From the course: Hands-On Data Science using SQL, Tableau, Python, and Spark
Exploring data visually in Tableau
- Now that you have Tableau installed, let's dive in and start building some data visualizations. So make sure you've downloaded the Superstore Data Set to start. If not, you can find it on my website at ftdacademy.com/resources. And then go ahead and open that up in Excel. And let's have a look. It's always a good idea to inspect our data before we start working with it and analyzing it. You can see here there's three different tabs. We have Orders, People, and then Returns. And so this is sales data for an office supply store. We have our row ID, order ID, order date, which you notice is in the numeric format, which is what Excel likes, 'cause this is a CSV file. And then we have over on the right, we have our Sales, Quantity, Discount, and Profit, and everything else is sort of our dimensions, the different ways we can slice and dice this data. So good looking data, it's a clean data set. I don't have any erroneous data floating out here or anything like that. And so it's always…
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