# What is Tableau Embedding in 10 mins - Part 1 - A beginners Guide  | Tableau Tutorial

> This is content from just-tim, the data-and-analytics channel by Tim Ngwena (formerly 'Tableau Tim'). Tim has 12+ years of hands-on BI experience and covers Tableau most of all, plus Power BI, Looker, Hex, SQL and data modelling, the analytics industry, and the craft of doing the job — always tool-agnostic and honest about the trade-offs.

- **Author:** Tim Ngwena (just-tim, https://just-tim.com/about)
- **Published:** 2023-11-27
- **Format:** Video · 11 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation, Analytics
- **Tools:** Tableau (cloud, embedding, server)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/what-is-tableau-embedding-in-10-mins-part-1-a-beginners-guide-tableau-tutorial
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWRWG831Q1w

I break down what Tableau embedding actually means: taking Tableau and placing it inside another system or application. I cover why businesses embed, what objects you can embed, where you can embed them, and the broader concept of embedded analytics.

## Key takeaways

- Embedding splits into internal use cases (employee portals, internal systems) and external use cases (white-labelling Tableau to sell data to customers)
- You can embed roughly four or five things: a view (dashboard or chart), the editing experience, Tableau Pulse, Ask Data or metrics, and even an empty data source
- Embedding is done on web pages using HTML and JavaScript embed code that queries the Tableau Server or Cloud and renders the visualisation in the browser
- Authentication happens via a handshake where your application verifies the user, then hands credentials to Tableau Server/Cloud to control what they can see
- Embedded analytics simply means building analytics into your own application rather than building the visualisation tool yourself, using a specialist tool like Tableau or D3

## Chapters

- 0:00 What is Tableau embedding?
- 1:25 Why you should embed Tableau
- 3:01 What you can embed
- 5:16 Where you can embed objects
- 6:05 Authentication and rendering
- 8:09 What embedded analytics means

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/what-is-tableau-embedding-in-10-mins-part-1-a-beginners-guide-tableau-tutorial

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