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Embedded analytics with Tableau - Tableau Tutorial
From the course: Everybody's Introduction to Tableau
Embedded analytics with Tableau
- We've covered embedding very briefly when talking about APIs, but in this lesson we'll take our understanding a little bit further. If you recall, we described embedding as a practical way for an entity using Tableau to enhance its own applications with Tableau's own features. To put this into perspective, consider this video you're watching right now unless you're watching it in the full screen experience, the video is playing within a video player inside of LinkedIn Learning. This is a prime example of embedding in action. You can think of the webpage as the application and the video as an embedded object inside of the application. When you start playing the video, the video player asks another system for the video file for this specific lesson and starts playing. To play the video, we must ensure you have access to LinkedIn Learning. In the world of Tableau and embedding, you can think of the video player in the example above as a Tableau visualization. Your application in this…