From the course: Tableau 10 for Data Scientists

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Incorporate custom geospatial data into your viz

Incorporate custom geospatial data into your viz - Tableau Tutorial

From the course: Tableau 10 for Data Scientists

Start my 1-month free trial

Incorporate custom geospatial data into your viz

“

- [Narrator] Creating a map in Tableau is a great way of analyzing your data when there's a geographic component to that dataset. That is where the location of something is important in the terms of the analysis. Now Tableau's got a very good repository of information about geographic data. For example, if you have countries, or states, or area codes, and you drop those into the rows and columns, Tableau will build the map for you. But what if you've got data that sits outside of that? If you've got some custom shape files that you want to incorporate? Now in the past, this would involve creating the polygons, putting the information in, and doing a lot of pre-processing outside of Tableau. So this is obviously a lot of work, and also when you imported it in, the performance of the polygons wasn't great. In Tableau 10.2 there's a new spatial file connector, which allows you to connect to some of the most common shape files. These include ASR Shapefiles, KML, Map Info tables, and Geo…

Contents