CHAPTER 7
PREPARING DATA FOR STORYTELLING
This chapter covers the very beginning of the data storytelling process, providing the processing steps necessary to ready messy data for visual analysis and storytelling in Tableau. You will leverage the lessons learned thus far in the text as you work through preparing data for analysis, connecting to data, and beginning to visually explore it in Tableau. This chapter walks you through this process, from exporting raw data from survey platforms in order to discuss some important data preparation steps that matter in Tableau, through manually preparing it in Excel and using Tableau 10 and to get data just where it needs to begin building a compelling visual data story.
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