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Export data to CSV files

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- [Instructor] One of the most common formats used for data transfer is the comma-separated value or CSV file. Tableau has always been able to read data from CSV files, but it wasn't until version 10.2 that you could write your datasets to a CSV file. I'll show you how to do that in this movie. My sample file is the export CSV workbook. My dataset breaks down orders placed by a series of hotels and they're broken down by year, by quarter, and by product category and I'm looking at the number of orders within each of those categories. If I want to export my dataset to a CSV or comma-separated value file, I can go to the Data menu and then point to the current sheet, which is OrderDetails, and then in the next to last item, click Export Data to CSV. Then in the Export Data dialog box, I can select a file name. I'll just leave it with OrderDetails and then PropertyOrderProduct in parentheses. I have character delimited files and the .csv and click Save and I'm done. Now if I go to that…

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