
Select the sheet tab to start your analysis.įor information about connecting to more than one table, see Join Your Data. For example, use a data source naming convention that helps other users of the data source figure out which data source to connect to. (Optional) Select the default data source name at the top of the page, and then enter a unique data source name for use in Tableau. On the data source page, do the following:


Start Tableau and under Connect, select Statistical File, select the file that you want to connect to, and then select Open. Make the connection and set up the data source Use a different compression scheme to make the file readable for Tableau.

Note: As of version 2020.1, Tableau no longer supports statistical files compressed with SASYZCR2. Tableau connects to SAS (*.sas7bdat), SPSS (*.sav), and R (*.rdata, *.rda) data files. This article describes how to connect Tableau to a statistical file and set up the data source.
