Claude's dashboard feature could let you vibe code Tableau data apps

0:00So literally yesterday I made a video about 26.

0:043 and in that video I talked about Tableau data apps

0:07And if you go back to the video, you'll see me reading through the description and just really not connecting with the feature.

0:13But I did sort of call out that I think this was going to be an interesting thing because what this

0:19description suggested was that you could essentially vibe code data apps on top of your tableau data sources and then

0:30share them into the Tableau ecosystem as equal citizens alongside dashboards and metrics.

0:37Now that didn't really quite connect in my head.

0:40Like you can literally see the moment in the video where I'm just reading it out like it's

0:44No big deal.

0:45And then this morning I saw this announcement by Claude here on the right.

0:51And in this post

0:53They talked about their dashboarding capability and immediately I thought, okay, here we go.

0:57BI tools are cooked.

0:59But then in here they mention a range of BI tools.

1:02So they mention you can connect straight to Amplitude, Grafana

1:06Hex, MixPanel, Omni, Perplexity, Post Hog, or Sigma and pick up the analysis from there with Looker, Monday.

1:14com and Tableau coming soon

1:17So I was like, wait, wait a minute.

1:20These are coming live.

1:22Like now.

1:23So you can already go and do these today.

1:26This is pretty cool.

1:27But then they said tableau coming soon.

1:30And this made sense because to me this suggested that 26.

1:323 was not yet out.

1:34It was going to be coming in beta this month.

1:36That's essentially what this one on the left-hand side says

1:39But then I just sat with it for a little bit longer and I just realized, wait a minute, you're gonna be able to essentially just vibe code solutions and what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna open this in a new tab, just so you can see this.

1:53exact example in sort of higher fidelity and there's a detail here which is very easy to miss.

1:59You vibe coded this application here on the right hand side.

2:03It's a native Clawed JSX file, which means it's uh been created here using HTML.

2:10It works and dances.

2:11Now what they haven't showed us is

2:13what the data source is at the top, but I have to assume that it's a tableau published data source for this to really sort of make sense.

2:20And it's also talking about VizQL data service.

2:23Okay.

2:23This is still not sort of yet a complete

2:27demo that I can really buy.

2:29But here at the bottom you can see this thing that says publish to personal space.

2:34And I I was like wait a minute.

2:36Is Tableau about to let you host non-native Tableau assets inside of the Tableau ecosystem on the basis that they're built on Tableau data sources?

2:47Therefore essentially saying that look you can use Claude to build your dashboards inside of Tableau Desktop or we can let everyone else in your business vibe code their own apps

2:57on top of the data sources you've built.

3:00I don't know about you, but I know what everyone else is going to be doing.

3:03They're probably going to be vibrating their own apps on top of the stuff you've built.

3:07And I can't say that this is definitely the case, but if I then go back to the Dreamforce keynote, I have to say that Salesforce absolutely missed the landing.

3:16Because when I saw the data app demo with the end state being inside of Tableau Next, that to me made a lot more sense because Salesforce is a web platform.

3:26It was completely sort of normal for you to have some sort of

3:30embed iframe going on in there and having that available.

3:34But you've never been able to bring in sort of random web pages as standalone assets inside of desktop, which is why it was believable there, but I really didn't see an analogous example

3:43over in the tableau ecosystem.

3:46But this I'm l I'm literally pulling at strings here, but these these points have to make sense.

3:52Why would this be on Tableau's

3:54page, why would it let you publish this lumber demand app, this JSX file here on the right hand side, as we see it, assuming connected to a Tableau data source.

4:05Put it in your personal space, which by the way is the right place to do it.

4:07Personal spaces are not public to everyone, so only you as the owner can see these things.

4:12That kind of plays along with the governance, but also means that you can have things in your personal space

4:17connected to trusted assets.

4:20And then it starts to make sense why things like Tableau knowledge are coming first.

4:24It starts to make sense why 26.

4:263 has basically a bunch of plumbing as I called it in yesterday's video

4:31but without any of the sort of value and if you think about it well of course why would you have any desktop feature shipping alongside this capability in the same release it's pointless

4:43So if you really want to give this capability the room to breathe, you want people to go wild about this, you clear the space and you just let this be the landmark feature.

4:54So

4:55Maybe I'm wishcasting, maybe it's copium, but I just wanted to make this video just to say, hey, this is a fundamentally big deal

5:03It puts building dashboards potentially as not even a second citizen, but a 30th citizen inside of the Tableau ecosystem.

5:12Because if you've watched some of my videos, you'll know that I'm I've been suggesting to people that in today's world you really shouldn't be trying to build dashboards for most of your solutions.

5:20You should really be trying to invest in a really good uh metric

5:24focused perspective around what your every say everyday business users need.

5:30But then on top of that, if you can vibe code things that look like this on the right hand side, and I'm not saying this is the most beautiful looking dashboard, but I can I tell you this.

5:39If you arm people in an organization with uh something called a design.

5:43md file, which is essentially a design standard for how branded assets should look.

5:47And you curate that specifically for visual best practice, which is not hard to do.

5:53You can kind of codify that in design language inside of that markdown

5:57Then you can have people create things that are close to brand perfect with all the Viz Best practice essentially baked in into the prompt.

6:06But then have them create their idealized version of those things with the controls they need and the necessary linkages that are required

6:13What's not clear is whether you can then use that to have things that are super complex like one published data source talk to another published data source.

6:21But of course VisQL data service now lets you do that through composable data sources as well.

6:25So

6:26I just wanted to make this very, very short video to say this is a huge deal.

6:30This is a really, really big deal.

6:31More than I even realized when I made the initial video, more than when I was even looking at the Dreamforce keynote.

6:36And so this is why this deserves its own feature

6:39It is apparently live today with other BI platforms.

6:44So you can already go and try this dashboard capability in Clawed.

6:48It's just there.

6:49It's been native since basically yesterday.

6:51But the tableau capability coming later this month.

6:54That's gonna be pretty exciting.

6:56I think that's gonna be the first thing I cover in 26.

6:593.

6:59But anyway, yeah, I said I said in yesterday's video, Tableau's about to get weird.

7:05And this is just yet another example.

7:07Like

7:08It could be that Salesforce has figured out to finally put a very strong foot forward in this whole space that makes a lot more sense than anything they've done before

7:21by a country mile and it would essentially solve the biggest problem, which is if I vibe code something and I actually like it, how do I do it on top of a trusted ecosystem, on top of a bunch of trusted assets?

7:32And then how do I govern it and make sure that it's visible?

7:35uh monitored and in my sort of walled garden that people ideally still use.

7:40Yeah, I'm not sure everyone's living inside a table every day, but

7:44You know, if you've really got Tableau and you were going to say to people, hey, come and build your vibe coded stuff here.

7:50In fact, build it where you want in Claude and then ship it over to Tableau when you're done.

7:54And then it's just a live updating asset connected to your thing.

7:58Wow, that could be incredible.

7:59And if if these can also be assets in Claude, still powered off your Tableau stuff, and there's that duality between the two, so you can

8:06iterate them in Claude and the have them update over in the Tableau ecosystem and vice versa.

8:11Man, I think um the days of building dashboards

8:15uh you know in the Tableau interface are pretty numbered, which is maybe why Tableau Studio is about to change the game.

8:22Anyway, maybe it's copium, maybe it's just me wish casting.

8:25Let me know what you think in the comments below