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The Trading Economics Tableau Connector links the Tableau software to our API which provides direct access to 300.000 economic indicators, exchange rates, stock market indexes, government bond yields and commodity prices. It allows you to download millions of rows of historical data, to query our real-time economic calendar and to subscribe to updates.

Installation

If you do not have Tableau yet, it is available here: Download Tableau.

Download the installer, launch it and follow the instructions.

Connection

Open Tableau software and find the Web Data Connector option. Click it, a new window will appear.

Tableau connection 1

Tableau connection 2

In the address bar of this new window paste:

https://api.tradingeconomics.com/js/tableau.html

Press Enter, TE Tableau API Connector is ready to be used.

Tableau connection 3