You're reading from Learning Tableau 2022 Create effective data visualizations, build interactive visual analytics, and improve your data storytelling capabilities

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801072328

Length 568 pages

Edition 5th Edition

Tools

Tableau

Concepts

Business Intelligence

Author (1):

Joshua N. Milligan

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Taking Off with Tableau FREE CHAPTER

2. Connecting to Data in Tableau

3. Moving Beyond Basic Visualizations

4. Starting an Adventure with Calculations and Parameters

5. Leveraging Level of Detail Calculations

6. Diving Deep with Table Calculations

7. Making Visualizations that Look Great and Work Well

8. Telling a Data Story with Dashboards

9. Visual Analytics: Trends, Clustering, Distributions, and Forecasting

10. Advanced Visualizations

11. Dynamic Dashboards

12. Exploring Mapping and Advanced Geospatial Features

13. Integrating Advanced Features: Extensions, Scripts, and AI

14. Understanding the Tableau Data Model, Joins, and Blends

15. Structuring Messy Data to Work Well in Tableau

16. Taming Data with Tableau Prep

17. Sharing Your Data Story

18. Other Books You May Enjoy

19. 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...