Connect SparkThriftServer with Tableau/PowerBI REFERENCE : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hdinsight/hdinsight-apache-spark-use-bi-tools Use Power BI for Spark data visualization Note This section is applicable only for Spark 1.6 on HDInsight 3.4 and Spark 2.0 on HDInsight 3.5. Once you have saved the data as a table, you can use Power BI to connect to the data and visualize it to create reports, dashboards, etc. 1. Make sure you have access to Power BI. You can get a free preview subscription of Power BI from http://www.powerbi.com/ . 2. Sign in to Power BI . 3. From the bottom of the left pane, click Get Data . 4. On the Get Data page, under Import or Connect to Data , for Databases , click Get . 5. On the next screen, click Spark on Azure HDInsight and then click Connect . When prompted, enter th...