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Published inAug 2022
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Joshua N. Milligan
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Joshua N. Milligan

Joshua N. Milligan is a Hall of Fame Tableau Zen Master and 2017 Iron Viz Global finalist. His passion is training, mentoring, and helping people gain insights and make decisions based on their data through data visualization using Tableau and data cleaning and structuring using Tableau Prep. He is a principal consultant at Teknion Data Solutions, where he has served clients in numerous industries since 2004.
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Tableau analytics extensions

Tableau analytics extensions allow you to use a connection from Tableau to an external analytics service or platform to perform complex operations and use the results in calculations, visualizations, and dashboards. Tableau analytics extensions allow you to connect to analytics services, such as:

  • TabPy: Tableau’s Python server
  • RServe: An open-source R server
  • Einstein Discovery: Salesforce’s predictive/AI analytics engine
  • Analytics Extensions API: An application programming interface allowing you to connect to numerous analytics tools and platforms. This allows you to use connectors you create programmatically or prebuilt connectors. For example, you can connect to MATLAB using the Analytics Extensions API.
  • Much like dashboard extensions required a separate web server to host the extension, analytics extensions will require a separate service or platform. For example, to run Python scripts in Tableau, you...
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Joshua N. Milligan

Joshua N. Milligan is a Hall of Fame Tableau Zen Master and 2017 Iron Viz Global finalist. His passion is training, mentoring, and helping people gain insights and make decisions based on their data through data visualization using Tableau and data cleaning and structuring using Tableau Prep. He is a principal consultant at Teknion Data Solutions, where he has served clients in numerous industries since 2004.
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