Connecting to Windows Azure Marketplace
Microsoft created an online platform called Windows Azure Marketplace for trading Software as a Service applications and data. Users can choose to buy and sell various datasets, and that makes it a great place to use datasets hosted on the cloud with Tableau.
Getting ready
To access the Azure Marketplace datasets, you'll need to create or already have an account with Microsoft (which was earlier called Windows Live ID). Once you are logged in with your Live ID, you'll also need to complete the registration process.
How to do it...
Once you have completed the registration process for the Azure Marketplace, perform the following steps to get the data from the Marketplace to Tableau:
- Log in to Windows Azure Marketplace ...
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