How to anonymize the data in your Tableau workbook

If you are concerned about sharing confidential or private information in your Tableau workbook, one option is to anonymize the data before sharing. 📺 Check out the 

video by Katie Kilroy for details.

1. In your original Tableau workbook, do a Save As on the file, so that you leave the original document unchanged.
2. Copy a sub-set of the real data and paste it into Excel or Google Sheets.
3. Manually update as many columns, headings, values, etc. to make it generic.
4. Save the Excel file and close it - if using Google Sheets you must download it as a .xlsx file.
5. In the Tableau workbook, change the data source over to this 'fake' one and close the real one.
6. Export the workbook as a packaged workbook.
7. This packaged workbook is what you can share in the Community accompanying your question post to demonstrate the problem.

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