Can we integrate the power of Python calculation with a Tableau? That question was encourage me to start exploring the possibility of using Python calculation in Tableau, and I ended up with a TabPy. How can we use TabPy to integrating Python and Tableau? In this article, I will introduce TabPy and go through an example of how we can use it. TabPy is an Analytics Extension from Tableau which enables us as a user to execute Python scripts and saved functions using Tableau.

Tableau is a very effective tool to create interactive data visualizations quickly and is a top-rated tool in the data science community. All the data scientists who have used Tableau know how powerful and easy tableau is for data visualization. Most Data Scientists/Analysts use tableau to create stunning visualizations with the available data for presentations. However, for any data scientist presenting trained machine models to end-users in an appealing way are as important as presenting Exploratory Data Analysis. Suppose there is a way to directly visualize trained machine models in Tableau that makes this process much easier.