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Joining related data sources

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Joining related data sources

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- [Instructor] One of the fundamental principles of good data design is spreading your data out so that individual tables store information about a particular business entity. For example, you might have a set of hotels that are in different cities and each one of those hotels could have a property ID, the property city and then the property state. Another table might have a list of employees for the entire company with a field indicating which property they work at. You could then link those two tables together based on the common field of the property ID. In this movie, I will show you how to create a connection between related tables within a data source. I have run Tableau, but I haven't created a workbook yet. What I want to do is connect to a data source that contains multiple tables. So here on the start screen, I will go over to the connect pane and click excel. Doing so displays the exercise files folder and the chapter two sub folder, and what I want to do is to connect…

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