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Setup

  1. Install python3 or all-in-one toolkit (e.g. anaconda)

  2. (optional) create a virtual environment > python3 -m venv ./venv > source ./venv/bin/activate

  3. install tabpy (and other) requirements (venv)> pip install -r requirements

  4. Start local tabpy server

    • Could also run on dedicated/remote server (venv)> tabpy

  5. Connect Tableau to tabpy server

    • local host or remote server

  6. Deploy function for normalize (tabpy must be running in another terminal) (venv)> python normalize.py

  7. Provided mysql (comments.sql) file should be used to create a comments table

Overview

  • Operate as table calculations
  • Can only pass aggregates (or ATTR) of fields
  • Must return JSON-serializable object
  • Select SCRIPT_{BOOL,INT,REAL,STR} based on return type