Exercise: polygons for Texas

As mentioned in the section Creating custom polygons, Tableau does natively provide polygons for several shape files.

Exercise: steps

In this exercise, we will use a .shp file to show the population of Texas:

1. Google the Texas City Limits Shape file and open the Texas Department of Transportation page.
2. On the right side, use the download dropdown and download the shape file.
3. In your download directory you should find multiple files:

4. In the workbook associated with this chapter, navigate to the Texas_Cities worksheet and select Data > New Data Source > Text File.
5. Navigate to the download directory and select the .shp file (which is also selected in the latest screenshot).
6. Double-click...