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Create new maps using MapBox

Create new maps using MapBox - Tableau Tutorial

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Create new maps using MapBox

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- [Narrator] When it comes to creating maps, Tableau has a few formatting options so we can make the maps look a bit more attractive. To find those, we go to the Maps section of our menu, and Map Layers. Here we can change the look and feel of our map. For example, if we don't wanna have the labels, we can turn off the Country and Region labels. We can take off the state names. We could add area codes and area code labels. If we want, we can change the entire style by going from a light to a dark background. This allows us to customize our map to fit in with the overall look or feel of our data. However, these options are quite limited. We're still only changing a small amount of information. If we want to get more detailed, then we have to input a whole new map style into Tableau. In this example, we're gonna use the website mapbox.com to import a new map style into Tableau and use it as our background map. To do this, you'll need to register yourself at the mapbox.com website in…

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