How to Extract Data From Different Sources With Tableau [Video]

Wondering how to extract data from Tableau? This blog post answers exactly this question.

In this article

1. Data in Tableau
2. Data Extraction from Tableau: Data Sources
3. How to Extract Data from Tableau: Techniques
4. Frequently Asked Questions on Data Extraction

Before we discuss how to extract data from Tableau, let’s take a look at some of the Tableau basics.

Data in Tableau

Tableau, a popular visual analytics platform, can import data from almost anywhere. It stores all of this data in four different data types. Those types are:

1. String is a ‘string’ of characters — this could be anything from text to URLs. For example “hello” is a string of five characters.
2. Number is quite self-explanatory, any numerical data is stored as a number.
3. Boolean only has two possible values — true or false.
4. DateTime — date or time. Tableau supports almost any date or time format.

Tableau will automatically assign a type to your imported data. You can change this type …