What is tableau prep builder vs desktop?

Question

Could someone explain the difference between Tableau Prep and Tableau Desktop?

Answer 1

Tableau Prep is a product offered by Tableau that is similar to an ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) tool that extracts data and cleanse them before use by data engineers or analysts in Tableau Desktop.

The clean data from Tableau Prep is a data source for the Tableau Desktop.

Whereas Tableau Desktop is a data visualization tool that is used by Data Analysts and engineers for creating dashboards for interactive visualizations from the raw data.

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