Developing Data Governance Practices
This last chapter is slightly different from the others. We will not discuss a feature to be used in a Tableau dashboard or on Tableau Server but rather the data capabilities related to data governance in Tableau – who has access to which data, who viewed which dashboard how often, what the data components of a dashboard are, where the data came from, and more.
We will discuss the following topics:
- What is data governance?
- Data governance principles
- Data governance in Tableau
- Follow-along examples
In recent times, especially in the last 20 years, data governance has gained more importance, which shows the increasing maturity in this field. While in earlier days, data governance was a sole IT task and often limited to data cataloging, today’s data governance is a task shared by many. The more data companies store, the more analysts they hire, the more data is used, and the more rules and guidelines...