Loading Geography Data into Tableau with pantab

This video shows you how to load geographic data into Tableau using the pantab library.

Many Tableau videos show you how to use Geographic data, but they start with the data already being available. In most production use cases, you will not have this luxury and will be responsible for pulling geographic data from other sources.

In the Python space, there are many popular tools (like geopandas) for loading and dealing with geographic data from different sources. With the techniques shown in this video, you can use pantab to translate such data into the format Tableau needs.

The source data used for this video may be downloaded from https://www.nyc.gov/site/tlc/about/tl...

00:00 - Introduction and deliverable overview
01:17 - Collecting the data
02:10 - Discussion of necessary Python libraries
03:05 - Coding begins!
03:57 - Loading and cleansing geographic information
06:30 - Writing data to Tableau using pantab
07:46 - Modeling our data in Tableau
08:50 - Creating our map visualization
09:47 - Scaling our visualization colors