Anvil X is a toolkit for building and deploying Tableau extensions entirely in Python. The platform is based on Anvil, a framework and integrated development environment for pure-Python full-stack ...

REDWOOD CITY, CA--(Marketwired - Oct 10, 2017) - Alation Inc., the collaborative data company, today announced new ways in Tableau to make Governance for Insight simple, with support for Tableau's new ...

The Tableau 2018.2 release provides and Extension API for developers, and a new server configuration and management tool.

Tableau 2018.2 is now available with a new Extensions API, Tableau Services Manager, Spatial Join, and new mobile layouts.

This means IT can use the API to create a custom writeback extension, allowing analysts to update an inventory management system, for example, without leaving Tableau.

Tableau also demonstrated Explain Data, which uses sophisticated statistical algorithms to allow people to instantly uncover AI-driven insights about their data.