Utilizing published data sources

In Chapter 1, What is Tableau Server?, you learned that a published data source is a data source that has been created and published to Tableau Server. Once on the server, a single published data source can be used by multiple workbooks. Published data sources are useful when your organization has important metrics that will be used in multiple reports or visualizations housed in different workbooks. If each workbook has its own data source, it not only takes up more room on Tableau Server and consumes more server resources when each extract refreshes, but it can also cause data variances if the workbooks are not refreshed at the same time. For example, if one workbook refreshes on Monday and another refreshes on Wednesday, but both workbooks visualize the same business metric, then end users are likely to be confused and contact you with questions when they notice differences in the data presented by the two workbooks. To avoid this, you can create...