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Links to Additional Information
The Tableau trainer provided this information to answer questions that came up during training.
- Custom mapping - custom polygons for states, counties, etc.
http://www.tableausoftware.com/support/knowledge-base/polygon-shaded-maps
Description: Tableau Knowledge Base article walking through creating custom polygons for states, counties, buildings, etc. that can be filled on maps.
- Custom mapping - custom background image
http://www.tableausoftware.com/support/knowledge-base/background-image-coordinates
Description: Tableau Knowledge Base article walking through a sample of importing a custom background image and mapping data to this image.
- Custom mapping - WMS servers
http://www.tableausoftware.com/support/knowledge-base/map-data-wms
Description: How to load WMS data into Tableau for background map images. For WMS servers, a list is available at
http://www.skylab-mobilesystems.com/en/wms_serverlist.html or you can download NASA_Earth_Observations_(NEO)_WMS.tms
- Custom mapping - Geocoding
http://www.gpsvisualizer.com
Description: Free tool that allows you to feed addresses and generate latitude/longitude coordinates.
- Custom mapping - Google maps integration
http://www.tableausoftware.com/support/knowledge-base/linking-google-maps
Description: This gives an example of using URL actions to link to external details from the web from within Tableau (in this case, google maps details).
- Date formatting
http://www.tableausoftware.com/support/knowledge-base/formatting-numbers-and-dates
Description: Tableau Knowledge Base article walking through custom formatting options for dates and numbers.
- Nested sorting
http://www.tableausoftware.com/support/knowledge-base/nestedsorting
Description: How to sort within a subcategory (rather than across all the data).
- Product documentation
http://www.tableausoftware.com/community/support/documentation
Description: Links to the various product documentation available for download.
- Tableau reshaper tool
http://www.tableausoftware.com/files/Tableau_Data_Tool.zip
Description: Download includes the application and instructions for use. This is a handy excel plugin that allows automated “reshaping” of data. This is helpful to get a data source into a Tableau-friendly format.
- Server - custom reporting
http://www.tableausoftware.com/files/server_admin6.0.pdf
Description: See page 27 for instructions on custom server reporting.
- Server - log files
http://www.tableausoftware.com/support/knowledge-base/creating-tableau-server-log-files
Description: Tableau Knowledge Base article walking through extracting logs from the Tableau server.
- Server - auto-email custom reports
http://www.tableausoftware.com/support/knowledge-base/using-tabcmd
Description: Tableau Knowledge Base article walking through using server to automatically download and email Tableau reports.