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Google Sheets with Tableau

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Got your data in Google Sheets? You can connect directly to your data in Tableau using it's web data connector. This feature has been around for a while now. If you are new to it, this could be a plus for you. Select the option under “More Servers…” on the Connect menu. After entering your Google Sheets credentials, you will see the list of available sheets. You can Select from the list or use the search bar to be specific, and click “connect.” What's cool about it is that If you aren’t sure if this is exactly the sheet you are looking for, you can easily open it in a web browser by selecting the “open in Google Drive”. Once the sheet has been loaded into Tableau, you can drag out the individual sheets from your Google Sheet and join or union them together. Additionally, you can also union and join Google Sheets with other data sources.Sounds cool right?. In Tableau, you can see all th

AWS: Benefits of using Amazon S3

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Let us start with a quick introduction. Amazon simple storage service or Amazon S3 provides developers / IT teams / Organizations / Individuals with secure, available, price friendly object storage in the cloud. Ok. Slow down. What is object storage? It is a computer data storage architecture that manages data as objects, as opposed to other storage architectures like file systems, which manage data as a file hierarchy, and block storage, which manages data as blocks within sectors and tracks. Amazon S3 is easy to use and can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data at any time. All data transfers are over automatic encryption and SSL. Data is secure, available when needed and will scale as your needs grow. Last thing you want to worry about is losing valuable data. Amazon S3 automatically replicates your objects on multiple devices across multiple facilities. In Amazon S3, you create bucke

Sales Report: Superstore (Tableau Data Visualization)

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Score Board (Tableau Data Visualization)

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