Technical requirements

For the complete list of requirements to run the practical examples in this chapter, please see the Technical requirements section in Chapter 1.

All the exercises and images in this chapter will be described using the Tableau Desktop client software except where noted. You can also recreate all the exercises in this chapter using the Tableau web client, which has a very similar experience to the Desktop client.

To run the exercises in this chapter, we will need the following downloaded files:

• Superstore Sales Orders - US.xlsx
• Product Database.xlsx
• Sales Argentina.csv
• Bicycle_Thefts.csv
• toronto_crs84.geojson

The files we will be using are based on Superstore data, the sample data that Tableau uses in its products. The exception will be the bicycle thefts and Toronto neighborhood shapefiles. These files came from https://data.torontopolice.on.ca/ and https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/data-research-maps/open-data/ respectively...