From the course: Everybody's Introduction to Tableau (2022)

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Embedded analytics with 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 way for an entity using Tableau to add the capability of Tableau to its own applications. What does this really mean? Well, let's take something like this video, this one you're watching. Unless you're watching this video in full screen, the video will be playing in a video player inside of LinkedIn Learning. 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 lesson and starts playing. In order to play the video, we have to make sure you have access to LinkedIn Learning. We have to know which course and lesson you're watching and while you watch, we might want to save some metadata…

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