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Mastering Tableau 2023 - Fourth Edition

By : Marleen Meier
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Mastering Tableau 2023 - Fourth Edition

By: Marleen Meier

Overview of this book

This edition of the bestselling Tableau guide will teach you how to leverage Tableau's newest features and offerings in various paradigms of the BI domain. Updated with fresh topics, including the newest features in Tableau Server, Prep, and Desktop, as well as up-to-date examples, this book will take you from mastering essential Tableau concepts to advance functionalities. A chapter on data governance has also been added. Throughout this book, you'll learn how to use Tableau Hyper files and Prep Builder to easily perform data preparation and handling, as well as complex joins, spatial joins, unions, and data blending tasks using practical examples. You'll also get to grips with executing data densification and explore other expert-level examples to help you with calculations, mapping, and visual design using Tableau extensions. Later chapters will teach you all 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, geo-spatial analysis, and how to connect Tableau to Python and R to implement programming functionalities within Tableau. By the end of this book, you'll have mastered Tableau 2023 and be able to tackle common and advanced challenges in the BI domain.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Index

Using the OData connector

The exercises in this chapter can be followed by downloading the workbook associated with this chapter at https://public.tableau.com/profile/marleen.meier. The following steps explain how datasets from the web can be loaded directly into Tableau by using an OData endpoint – in this case, provided by the city of Chicago:

  1. Navigate to https://data.cityofchicago.org/Public-Safety/Crimes-2001-to-Present/ijzp-q8t2 and select the More icon (indicated by an ellipsis, ), followed by the Access Data via OData button:

Figure 6.1: Chicago Data Portal

  1. Copy the OData Endpoint URL and open Tableau Desktop:

Figure 6.2: OData

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

Figure 6.3: OData connector

  1. 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:
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