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Data Modeling with Tableau

By : Kirk Munroe
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Data Modeling with Tableau

By: Kirk Munroe

Overview of this book

Tableau is unlike most other BI platforms that have a single data modeling tool and enterprise data model (for example, LookML from Google’s Looker). That doesn’t mean Tableau doesn’t have enterprise data governance; it is both robust and highly flexible. This book will help you effectively use Tableau governance models to build a data-driven organization. Data Modeling with Tableau is an extensive guide, complete with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts, practical examples, and hands-on exercises. As you progress through the chapters, you’ll learn the role that Tableau Prep Builder and Tableau Desktop each play in data modeling. You’ll also explore the components of Tableau Server and Tableau Cloud that make data modeling more robust, secure, and performant. Moreover, by extending data models for Ask and Explain Data, you’ll gain the knowledge required to extend analytics to more people in their organizations, leading to better data-driven decisions. Finally, this book will guide you through the entire Tableau stack and the techniques required to build the right level of governance into Tableau data models for the correct use cases. By the end of this Tableau book, you’ll have a firm understanding of how to leverage data modeling in Tableau to benefit your organization.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Part 1: Data Modeling on the Tableau Platform
4
Part 2: Tableau Prep Builder for Data Modeling
9
Part 3: Tableau Desktop for Data Modeling
14
Part 4: Data Modeling with Tableau Server and Online

Outputting our data models to database tables

The third and final output option is the option to output to a database table. If you want to leverage the enterprise security and scalability of a database server, this option provides you the ability to output your data to a single database table. This option may also make sense if you are consuming your data model in other analytics tools in addition to Tableau:

  1. To begin the process of a database table output, we are going back to our last step from the previous section, but we will change our Save output to option to Database table, as seen in Figure 6.8:
Figure 6.8 – Publishing to a database table

Figure 6.8 – Publishing to a database table

  1. We should now see our output pane change to Add a connection to a database server, as seen in Figure 6.9. The list of available database servers is always being updated. At the time of writing, the list of supported databases matches the list in Figure 6.9:
Figure 6.9 – Database server options
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