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Learning Tableau 2022 - Fifth Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Aug 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801072328
Pages 568 pages
Edition 5th Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Joshua N. Milligan Joshua N. Milligan
Profile icon Joshua N. Milligan

Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface Taking Off with Tableau Connecting to Data in Tableau Moving Beyond Basic Visualizations Starting an Adventure with Calculations and Parameters Leveraging Level of Detail Calculations Diving Deep with Table Calculations Making Visualizations that Look Great and Work Well Telling a Data Story with Dashboards Visual Analytics: Trends, Clustering, Distributions, and Forecasting Advanced Visualizations Dynamic Dashboards Exploring Mapping and Advanced Geospatial Features Integrating Advanced Features: Extensions, Scripts, and AI Understanding the Tableau Data Model, Joins, and Blends Structuring Messy Data to Work Well in Tableau Taming Data with Tableau Prep Sharing Your Data Story Other Books You May Enjoy
Index

Tableau analytics extensions

Tableau analytics extensions allow you to use a connection from Tableau to an external analytics service or platform to perform complex operations and use the results in calculations, visualizations, and dashboards. Tableau analytics extensions allow you to connect to analytics services, such as:

  • TabPy: Tableau’s Python server
  • RServe: An open-source R server
  • Einstein Discovery: Salesforce’s predictive/AI analytics engine
  • Analytics Extensions API: An application programming interface allowing you to connect to numerous analytics tools and platforms. This allows you to use connectors you create programmatically or prebuilt connectors. For example, you can connect to MATLAB using the Analytics Extensions API.
  • Much like dashboard extensions required a separate web server to host the extension, analytics extensions will require a separate service or platform. For example, to run Python scripts in Tableau, you...
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