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Creating Data Stories with Tableau Public

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Creating Data Stories with Tableau Public

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Creating Data Stories with Tableau Public
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

URL actions


URL actions are useful when you wish to connect users to external and auxiliary data, whether it's from a public interest website or to a related dashboard. In the next example, you will create a URL action that allows users to view the World Bank's website for each country.

The URL action that you will build will append the name of each country as a variable to the root URL for the World Bank's well-organized websites.

The root URL is http://www.worldbank.org/en/country, and in order to get to a specific country, such as South Africa, you need to add the country name so that it looks like http://www.worldbank.org/en/country/southafrica.

There is one issue—there are no spaces in the country names in the URL and yet, there are spaces in the country names in the data source.

So first, create a Calculated field that removes the space in each Country name so that we can append it as a token to the URL.

To remove and append the Country name with a URL, perform the following steps:

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