External Service
Analytics Extensions in Tableau (Prep)

Tamas Foldi - @tfoldi

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Let's start with some history

Productized as "Extensions API"

TC19 Hackathon

External Service API is the most underdocumented Tableau API

WTF is External API?

Spot the difference!

2019.4

2020.1

Mapbox in

Tableau Prep

Demo

- Analytics Extension - Haskell

- Mapbox in Desktop

- Mapbox in Prep