From the course: Everybody's Introduction to Tableau (2022)
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Tableau APIs - Tableau Tutorial
From the course: Everybody's Introduction to Tableau (2022)
Tableau APIs
- With every technology, there are times when you want to push the boundaries to make technology work in a way that couldn't be imagined by the developers of the software. For those moments, Tableau has APIs. An API is simply a way for developers to interface with technology, in this case, the Tableau platform. And as you can expect with a platform as varied as Tableau's, there's going to be a range of APIs to allow you to control various aspects of the platform. Tableau categorizes them into four high level groupings, connect, extend, embed, automation, and advanced analytics. Let's take a look at each group and what the APIs allow you to do. Connecting to data is the first part of many analytical workplace, and whilst Tableau supports a host of databases and data sources out of the box, you might come across scenarios where you need custom control of how you connect or produce data sets. To solve that, the connector…
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