Publishing to Tableau Online

[OrysyaStus]

I was able to replicate the work presented in the following blog, using a different data set of interest, https://www.tableau.com/about/blog/2017/1/building-advanced-analytics-applications-tabpy-64916
where Bora used Breast Cancer data set, completed model training within jupyter notebook, and deployed the best model as a function to Tableau via tabpy_client. The calculated field which I created which works via parameter control works well on Tableau Desktop. I would like to publish to Tableau Online to share my work, but have the following error raised "The workbook you are attempting to publish contains scripts for an external service. External service scripts are not allowed in public workbooks."

I understand that external connection to jupyter notebook causes this error, but I would like to know what is the best way to publish to online version ie. should I use .py connection or inline python scripting within Tableau (similar to what was completed in the Seattle Police Department example).

Best,
Orysya

[mGalarnyk]

+1

[BBeran]

Hi Orysya,
Unfortunately Python and R scripts are not supported on Tableau Online currently as Tableau doesn't host RServe and TabPy as part of Tableau Online and there is no configuration UI to allow pointing to TabPy/RServe that you might be hosting yourself elsewhere (e.g. AWS). This is a limitation we would like to address in the upcoming releases. This would work on Tableau Server (on-premise) which allows configuring R or TabPy using tabadmin command line utility.

Thank you,

Bora

[OrysyaStus]

Okay thank you for the feedback. I will see what works best for my purpose.

[jnawras]

I doubt this is going to be implemented anytime soon.
It would have a huge impact, turning Tableau Online from a Viz/BI tool to an ML portal.

[mac471]

Any update on this? Tableau Online is great because it's fully hosted. I don't want to have to consider implementing my own Tableau Server (and all the attendant overhead) just to get integration with Python and R. Why couldn't Online have the ability to point requests to an external server that we would maintain?

[nmannheimer]

Hey @mac471 and all in this thread. This is the current feature that our team is working on, and I'd love to get your feedback and ideas for use cases. Please connect with me at nmannheimer@tableau.com

[mac471]

Hey @nmannheimer - that's great! I'll reach out to you directly via email. Best regards.

[mathphysmx]

Any updates here?

[nmannheimer]

@mathphysmx we are in progress with this work right now. I'd love to learn more about what you're looking to do if you want to email me at nmannheimer@tableau.com

[obligori]

Hi @nmannheimer @0golovatyi,
Do you have an idea when will this feature be deployed?
We're looking for a way to publish dashboards that use tabpy to our Tableau online.
Thanks 🙏

[nmannheimer]

Hey @obligori We'd love to chat in more detail, would you be willing to drop me a line at nmannheimer@tableau.com ?

[0golovatyi]

I am glad to report Tableau Online supports analytics extensions. More details at http://tabscifi.com/2021/01/analytics-extensions-are-available-with-tableau-online/