Data Interpreter

Let's start by connecting to the Dataset to clean file in Tableau:

  1. Open Tableau, select Microsoft Excel in the list of connectors, and select the Dataset to clean Excel file.
  2. Tableau automatically puts the unique sheet, Sales, in the Data Source pane, but as you can see in the preview, the connection needs cleansing:

  1. To clean the file, click on Use Data Interpreter, underneath Sheets.  

As you can see in the following screenshot, it's already much better:

However, we still need to split the Country and City column and pivot ...

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