Python installation and integration

Python is an interpreted programming language and is very well known for its readability. The first release was in 1991, so quite some time ago (longer than most people would guess), and it was developed by Guido van Rossum. TabPy is an external service that will allow you to connect Python and Tableau—similar to Rserve. By using TabPy, you will be able to parse fields from your Tableau dashboard to Python, execute a calculation, and send back the result as a newly calculated field to Tableau. Or you can also call functions that you implemented in Python, again in a calculated field. A more extensive article on TabPy can be found here: https://tableaumagic.com/tableau-and-python-an-introduction.

Installing Python is typically not difficult, but it does involve more than simply double-clicking on an executable. To successfully connect Tableau with Python, you might have to install some libraries and execute comments on the command line...