TabPy Tutorial: Integration of Python in Tableau

This tutorial will give a walk through the installation and connecting Tableau with TabPy. After this tutorial, one will be able to execute a simple python function from Tableau to perform some analytics calculation such as correlations etc

1. Installation of Python and TabPy

Windows Users:

https://github.com/tableau/TabPy

Download this official TabPy Integration from above link. Open the TabPy-master folder and click on setup.bat to start the installation of TabPy.  See below image.

 

 

After clicking on setup.bat, System will look for any previous installation of Anaconda at port 9004. You will see below screen:

2. Connecting Tableau to TabPy.

Go to Help > Setting and Performance > Manage External Service Connection

3. Python code to a Calculated Field

You can invoke Calculated Field functions called SCRIPT_STR, SCRIPT_REAL, SCRIPT_BOOL, and SCRIPT_INT to embed your Python script in Tableau:

4.  Use Calculated Field in Tableau

Now you can use your Python calculation as Calculated Field in your Tableau worksheet:

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