diff --git a/config/plugins/visualizations/ipython/ipython/config/ipython.xml b/config/plugins/visualizations/ipython/ipython/config/ipython.xml
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index 00000000000..aaa675217d0
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE visualization SYSTEM "../../visualization.dtd">
+<visualization name="IPython">
+    <data_sources>
+        <data_source>
+            <model_class>HistoryDatasetAssociation</model_class>
+            <test type="isinstance" test_attr="datatype" result_type="datatype">tabular.Tabular</test>
+            <to_param param_attr="id">dataset_id</to_param>
+        </data_source>
+    </data_sources>
+    <params>
+        <param type="dataset" var_name_in_template="hda" required="true">dataset_id</param>
+    </params>
+    <template>ipython.mako</template>
+</visualization>
diff --git a/config/plugins/visualizations/ipython/ipython/templates/ipython.mako b/config/plugins/visualizations/ipython/ipython/templates/ipython.mako
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+++ b/config/plugins/visualizations/ipython/ipython/templates/ipython.mako
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+<%
+import os
+import sys
+import tempfile
+import shutil
+import subprocess
+
+empty_nb = """{
+ "metadata": {
+  "name": "",
+  "signature": "sha256:201eaf53a7ca0a5b661e0c8925adc61714a91ac871471604c428cbda4a698239"
+ },
+ "nbformat": 3,
+ "nbformat_minor": 0,
+ "worksheets": [
+  {
+   "cells": [
+    {
+     "cell_type": "heading",
+     "level": 2,
+     "metadata": {},
+     "source": [
+      "Welcome to the interactive Galaxy IPython Notebook."
+     ]
+    },
+    {
+     "cell_type": "markdown",
+     "metadata": {},
+     "source": [
+      "You can access your data via the dataset number. For example: handle = open('42', 'r')"
+     ]
+    },
+    {
+     "cell_type": "code",
+     "collapsed": false,
+     "input": [],
+     "language": "python",
+     "metadata": {},
+     "outputs": []
+    }
+   ],
+   "metadata": {}
+  }
+ ]
+}"""
+
+PORT = 7777
+
+temp_dir = os.path.abspath( tempfile.mkdtemp() )
+new_dataset_path = os.path.join( temp_dir, str( hda.hid ) )
+shutil.copy( hda.file_name, new_dataset_path )
+
+
+empty_nb_path = os.path.join(temp_dir, 'ipython_galaxy_notebook.ipynb')
+with open( empty_nb_path, 'w+' ) as handle:
+    handle.write( empty_nb )
+
+docker_cmd = 'docker run -d -p %s:6789 -v "%s:/import/" bgruening/docker-ipython-notebook' % (PORT, temp_dir)
+
+subprocess.call(docker_cmd, shell=True)
+
+
+%>
+<html>
+
+
+<body>
+    <object data="http://localhost:${PORT}/notebooks/ipython_galaxy_notebook.ipynb" height="100%" width="100%">
+        <embed src="http://localhost:${PORT}/notebooks/ipython_galaxy_notebook.ipynb" height="100%" width="100%">
+        </embed>
+    </object>
+</body>
+</html>