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Mastering Tableau 2021 - Third Edition

By : Marleen Meier, David Baldwin
Book Image

Mastering Tableau 2021 - Third Edition

By: Marleen Meier, David Baldwin

Overview of this book

Tableau is one of the leading business intelligence (BI) tools that can help you solve data analysis challenges. With this book, you will master Tableau's features and offerings in various paradigms of the BI domain. Updated with fresh topics including Quick Level of Detail expressions, the newest Tableau Server features, Einstein Discovery, and more, this book covers essential Tableau concepts and advanced functionalities. Leveraging Tableau Hyper files and using Prep Builder, you’ll be able to perform data preparation and handling easily. You’ll gear up to perform complex joins, spatial joins, unions, and data blending tasks using practical examples. Next, you’ll learn how to execute data densification and further explore expert-level examples to help you with calculations, mapping, and visual design using Tableau extensions. You’ll also learn about improving dashboard performance, connecting to Tableau Server and understanding data visualization with examples. Finally, you'll cover advanced use cases such as self-service analysis, time series analysis, and geo-spatial analysis, and connect Tableau to Python and R to implement programming functionalities within it. By the end of this Tableau book, you’ll have mastered the advanced offerings of Tableau 2021 and be able to tackle common and advanced challenges in the BI domain.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Index

Using the OData connector

The exercises in this chapter can be followed along with by downloading the workbook associated with this chapter on https://public.tableau.com/profile/marleen.meier or by using the OData connector directly. The following steps explain how datasets from the web can be loaded directly into Tableau by using an OData endpoint:

  1. Navigate to https://data.cityofchicago.org/Public-Safety/Crimes-2020/qzdf-xmn8 and select the More icon (indicated by an ellipsis, ), followed by the Access Data via OData button:

    Figure 6.1: Chicago Data Portal

  2. Copy the OData Endpoint value and open Tableau Desktop:

    Figure 6.2: OData

  3. In the Data Source pane, search for OData, and select the OData option:

    Figure 6.3: OData connector

  4. In the Server field, copy in the OData endpoint from the Chicago Crime website. Authentication is not necessary, so select Sign In to get started:

    Figure 6.4: Server name...