Summary
In this chapter, we learned about the different data sources available to Tableau Desktop.
In the first section, we looked at the different file types that can be data sources for Tableau. We imported data to create data models from Microsoft Excel, CSV files, JSON files, spatial files, and tables from PDF files.
We looked at the different types of servers that Tableau connects to, including native connectors, additional connectors, and generic ODBC and JDBC connectors when our data server is not listed. Additionally, we looked at web data connectors for creating models from the data on web pages and web applications.
In the final section, we looked at creating and connecting to Tableau published data sources, one of the key components for data modeling at scale in Tableau.
This chapter focused on the building blocks of data modeling in Tableau – connecting to data. In the next three chapters, we will look at how to extend and scale our data models by combining...
