Coding Custom Regions with Large Data Sets - Tableau Prep Example #1

In this Tutorial we will be preparing our data using Microsoft Excel and Tableau Prep Builder to create a .hyper data extract which we will use in future Tutorials and Examples. Tableau has a powerful built-in mapping system that is able to map information down to the zip-code and counties of most countries, but does not have a built-in method of creating our own custom regions (or territories). To do this, we must create a group by coding the custom region into our data as a variable for Tableau to place a country (or state/province) within your custom region. In this example, we will add a Continent and Region variable to our dataset which will create two new groupings and allow us to analyze and visualize our data based on our new groups.

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[dataengrprospect]

Thank you so much. Great video. I'm curious how large is the dataset you used for this?

[Nana-ocet]

thanks for the video. However i am unable to download the csv file can you assist me