Connecting to text files
When you open Tableau for the first time, you should see a screen similar to the one shown in the following screenshot. This image shows the various data sources available for analysis. Tableau provides you with two sample data sources, Sample - Coffee Chain (Access) and Sample - Superstore Sales (Excel), as shown in the following screenshot:
Getting ready
To prepare for the recipe, download and save titanic.txt from http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/pub/Main/DataSets/titanic.txt on your local hard drive. Remember this location, as we will use this file for this recipe. This file lists all the passengers (and their details) ...
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